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I 
POETBY 


OF 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN : 


COMPRISING   THE    CELEBRATED 


POLITICAL    AND     SATIRICAL     POEMS, 


THE  RT.  Hoxs.  G.  CANNING,  JOHN  HOOKHAM  FEERE,  W.  PITT, 

THE  MARQUIS  WELLESLEY,  G.  ELLIS,  W.  GIFFORD, 

THE  EARL  OF  CARLISLE,  AND  OTHERS. 


EDITED,    WITH    EXPLANATORY    NOTES,    ETC. 
BY 

CHABLES    EDMONDS, 

EDITOR   OF    "  THE   PYTCHLEY  HUNT,   PAST  AND   PRESENT,"    ETC.,    ETC. 


THIRD  EDITION,   CONSIDERABLY  ENLARGED,    WITH  SIX  ILLUSTRATIONS 
BY  JAMES  6ILLRAY. 


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Limited, 
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[ALL  BIGHTS  RESERVED.] 


THE   ABERDEEN    UNIVEBSITY   PRESS. 


EDITOE'S  PEEFACE. 


THE  fate  which  usually  attends  political  and  satirical 
writings  that  owe  their  origin  to  passing  events,  has  in 
no  way  affected  the  POETRY  OF  THE  ANTI-JACOBIN,  which, 
after  a  lapse  of  more  than  ninety  years,  still  continues  to 
interest  and  amuse.  Public  opinion  never  fails,  sooner 
or  later,  to  arrive  at  a  just  conclusion  as  to  the  merits 
both  of  individuals  and  actions ;  and  though  it  may  often 
neglect  to  preserve  a  meritorious  work,  never  perpetuates 
a  worthless  one.  Poetry  which  lashed  with  so  remorse- 
less a  hand  the  patriotic  proceedings,  and  held  up  to 
ridicule  the  persons  and  habits,  of  the  most  distinguished 
Whig  leaders,  must  have  possessed  no  common  merit  to 
have  won  the  encomiums  of  such  liberal  politicians  and 
such  critics  as  MACKINTOSH  and  JEFFREY,  MOORE  and 
BYRON. 

MOORE,  in  his  Life  of  Sheridan,  observes:  "The  Rolliad 
and  The  Anti-Jacobin  may,  on  their  respective  sides  of  the 
question,  be  considered  as  models  of  that  style  of  political 
satire  whose  lightness  and  vivacity  give  it  the  appearance 
of  proceeding  rather  from  the  wantonness  of  wit  than  of 
ill-nature,  and  whose  very  malice,  from  the  fancy  with 
which  it  is  mixed  up,  like  certain  kinds  of  fire- works, 
explodes  in  sparkles  ".  This  criticism  might  be  applied 
to  some  of  his  own  political  squibs. 


Vi  POETRY   OF   THE    ANTI- JACOBIN. 

As  the  poems  refer  to  occurrences  long  since  past,  a 
rapid  glance  at  the  state  of  events  at  that  time  (1797-8) 
may  render  them  more  intelligible  to  the  generality  of 
readers. 

The  affairs  of  England  were  then  in  a  critical  position. 
The  ministry  of  PITT  was  carrying  on  a  fierce  war  with 
republican  France,  the  necessity  for  which  had  split  the 
public  into  two  great  parties.  The  liberal  party  alleged, 
that  "  the  whole  misfortunes  of  Europe  and  all  the  crimes 
of  France  had  arisen  from  the  iniquitous  coalition  of 
kings  to  overturn  its  infant  freedom ; — that,  if  its  govern- 
ment had  been  left  alone,  it  would  neither  have  stained 
its  hands  with  innocent  blood  at  home  nor  pursued  plans 
of  aggrandizement  abroad;  and  that  the  Eepublic,  relieved 
from  the  pressure  of  external  danger,  and  no  longer 
roused  by  the  call  of  patriotic  duty,  would  have  quietly 
turned  its  swords  into  pruning-hooks,  and,  renouncing 
the  allurements  of  foreign  conquests,  thought  only  of 
promoting  the  internal  felicity  of  its  citizens  ". 

These  sentiments,  though  supported  by  the  extra- 
ordinary eloquence  of  Fox,  SHERIDAN,  EESKINE,  and 
others,  had  but  little  weight  with  the  minister  or  the 
great  body  of  the  public.  It  was  impossible  to  deny 
that  the  power  of  the  French  Eepublic  was  daily  increas- 
ing, and  threatened  the  subjugation  of  the  greater  part 
of  Europe.  BUONAPARTE  had  overrun  Italy,  and  broken 
the  power  of  Austria,  which,  by  the  treaty  of  Leoben, 
was  compelled  to  cede  the  Netherlands  to  France,  allow 
the  free  navigation  of  the  Ehine,  and  recognise  the  in- 
dependence of  the  newly-erected  Italian  republics. 


EDITOR  S   PREFACE.  Vll 

Spain,  also,  had  declared  war  against  Britain,  which 
was  thus  left  to  contend  singly  against  the  power  of 
France  ;  for  the  Directory  had  refused  the  basis  of  peace 
proposed  by  LORD  MALMESBURY,  that  of  a  mutual  restitu- 
tion of  conquests.  To  add  to  these  embarrassments,  dur- 
ing the  year  1797  credit  became  affected,  and  the  Bank 
of  England  suspended  cash  payments ;  mutinies  broke 
out  in  the  fleets  at  Spithead  and  the  Nore  ;  and  Ireland 
was  on  the  verge  of  rebellion.  But  the  talents  of  PITT 
were  equal  to  the  occasion,  and  his  power  rose  higher 
than  ever,  when  his  prognostications  were  shortly  after 
(in  December,  1797)  confirmed  by  the  unprovoked  attack 
upon  Switzerland  by  the  French.  The  impolicy  of  this 
proceeding  was  equal  to  its  infamy ;  for  nothing  ever 
done  by  the  revolutionary  government  contributed  so 
powerfully  to  cool  the  ardour  of  its  partisans  in  Europe, 
and  to  open  the  eyes  of  the  intelligent  and  respectable 
classes  in  every  other  country  to  its  ultimate  designs. 
Its  effect  on  the  friends  of  freedom  in  England  may  be 
judged  of  from  the  indignant  protest  of  SIR  JAMES 
MACKINTOSH,  himself  once  a  warm  admirer  of  the  French 
Revolution,  who,  in  his  defence  of  JEAN  PELTIER,  in  1803, 
for  a  libel  on  BUONAPARTE,  declared,  "  the  invasion  and 
destruction  of  Switzerland  an  act,  in  comparison  with 
which  all  the  deeds  of  rapine  and  blood  perpetrated  in 
the  world  are  innocence  itself ".  Even  before  this,  the 
true  character  of  the  revolution  had  been  detected  by 
the  democratic  COLERIDGE,  who  gave  public  utterance 
to  his  feelings  of  horror  and  disgust  in  that  noble  Ode  to 
France  written  in  February,  1797.  In  a  word,  to  say 


Vili  POETRY   OF   THE   ANTI-JACOBIN. 

nothing  of  her  other  conquests,  France,  at  the  beginning 
of  1798,  had  three  affiliated  republics  at  her  side,  the 
Batavian,  Cisalpine,  and  the  Ligurian  ;  before  its  close 
she  had  organized  three  more,  the  Helvetic,  the  Eoman, 
and  the  Parthenopeian. 

PITT'S  influence  was  further  increased  by  the  threatened 
invasion  of  Great  Britain  by  the  French,  a  proceeding 
which,  as  it  affected  every  class  in  the  country,  raised 
the  national  enthusiasm  to  the  highest  pitch,  inflamed 
as  it  already  was  by  the  recent  glorious  victories  off  Cape 
St.  Vincent  and  Camperdown.  That  they  were  likely 
to  be  in  earnest  had  been  already  shown  by  their  expedi- 
tions to  Bantry  Bay  and  Pembrokeshire,  and  BUONA- 
PAKTE'S  boast  at  Geneva,  that  "  he  would  democratize 
England  in  three  months,"  proved  how  much  he  relied 
upon  the  support  of  the  malcontents  both  in  Great 
Britain  and  Ireland.  The  estimates  and  preparations  for 
defence  were  enormous ;  taxes,  to  an  extent  utterly  un- 
known before,  were  laid  on ;  the  Volunteer  Bill  was 
passed  (SHERIDAN  assisting),  by  which,  in  addition  to  the 
regular  army,  a  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  volunteers 
were,  in  a  few  weeks,  in  arms  ;  THE  KING  was  authorized 
by  another  bill,  in  the  event  of  an  invasion,  to  call  out  the 
levy,  en  masse,  of  the  population ;  the  Alien  Bill  was  re- 
enacted  ;  and  the  suspension  of  the  Habeas  Corpus  Act 
continued  for  another  year. 

But  the  genius  of  one  man,  however  great,  can  effect 
but  little,  unless  suitably  supported  by  others.  The  saga- 
cious mind  of  PITT  had  long  seen  that  his  party  in 
Parliament  were,  with  very  few  exceptions,  no  match  for 


EDITOR  S    PREFACE.  IX 

his  numerous  opponents,  powerful  both  in  talent  and 
social  position  ;  among  whom  were  Fox,  SHERIDAN, 
ERSKINE,  HORNE  TOOKE,  WHITBREAD,  NICHOLLS,  COURTE- 
NAY,  FITZPATRICK,  the  DUKES  of  NORFOLK  and  BEDFORD, 
LORD  STANHOPE,  the  DUCHESS  of  DEVONSHIRE,  and  others. 
He  was  always  anxious,  therefore,  to  secure  whatever 
available  talent  presented  itself,  and  immediately  on  their 
appearance  enlisted  under  his  banners  CANNING,  JENKIN- 
SON,  BVSKISSON,  and  CASTLEREAGH,  all  men  of  the  same 
standing,N  for  the  first  three  were  born  in  1770,  and  the 
last  in  1769. 

The  important  assistance  of  CANNING  was  immediately 
felt,  for  he  was,  in  the  words  of  BYRON,  "a  genius — 
almost  a  universal  one ;  an  orator,  a  wit,  a  poet,  a  states- 
man ".  Though  he  entered  Parliament  at  the  early  age 
of  23  (in  1793),  and  attained  the  post  of  Under- Secretary 
of  State  for  the  Foreign  Department  two  years  after,  he 
was  by  no  means  inexperienced  either  as  a  writer  or  as  an 
orator ;  for  while  a  student  at  Eton  he  had  won  distinc- 
tion by  his  contributions  to  The  Microcosm,  a  weekly  paper 
published  by  the  more  advanced  Etonians,  and  also  in 
the  discussions  of  their  Debating  Society,  which  were 
conducted  with  strict  regard  to  parliamentary  usages. 
And  afterwards,  while  studying  for  the  law,  he  took  an 
active  part  in  the  proceedings  of  the  debating  societies  of 
the  metropolis,  in  which  he  achieved  so  much  reputation 
as  to  lead  to  his  introduction  to  PITT,  whose  party  he 
unhesitatingly  joined. 

CANNING  early  saw  the  necessity  of  the  Government's 
possessing  some  literary  engine,  which,  like  the  Whig 


X  POETRY   OF   THE    ANTI- JACOBIN. 

Rolliad,  published  some  years  before,  should  carry  con- 
fusion into  the  ranks  of  its  enemies.  In  a  lucky  hour  he 
conceived  the  idea  of  Tlie  Anti-Jacobin,  a  weekly  news- 
paper, interspersed  with  poetry,  the  avowed  object  of 
which  was  to  expose  the  vicious  doctrines  of  the  French 
Revolution,  and  to  turn  into  ridicule  and  contempt  the 
advocates  of  that  event,  and  the  sticklers  for  peace  and 
parliamentary  reform.  The  editor  was  WILLIAM  GIFFOBD, 
whose  vigorous  and  unscrupulous  pen  had  been  already 
shown  in  his  Baviad  and  Mceviad ;  and  among  the  regular 
writers  were  :  JOHN  HOOKHAM  FRERE,  JENKINSON  (after- 
wards EARL  OF  LIVERPOOL),  GEORGE  ELLIS  (who  had 
previously  contributed  to  the  Whig  Rolliad),  LORD  CLARE, 
LORD  MORNINGTON  (afterwards  MARQUIS  WELLESLEY), 
LORD  MORPETH  (afterwards  EARL  OF  CARLISLE),  BARON 
MACDONALD,  and  others.  These  gentlemen  entered  upon 
their  task  with  no  common  spirit.  Their  purpose  was 
to  blacken  their  adversaries,  and  they  spared  no  means, 
fair  or  foul,  in  the  attempt.  Their  most  distinguished 
countrymen,  whose  only  fault  was  their  being  opposed  to 
government,  were  treated  with  no  more  respect  than  their 
foreign  adversaries,  and  were  held  up  to  public  execration 
as  traitors,  blasphemers,  and  debauchees.  So  alarmed, 
however,  became  WILBERFORCE  and  others  of  the  more 
moderate  supporters  of  ministers  at  the  boldness  of  the 
language  employed,  that  PITT  was  induced  to  interfere, 
and,  after  an  existence  of  eight  months,  The  Anti-Jacobin 
(in  its  original  form)  ceased  to  exist. 

The  Poetry  of  the  An ti- Jacobin  is  not  exclusively  political. 
The,  Loves  of  the  Triangle*,  a  parody  on  DR.  DARWIN'S  Loves 


EDITOR  8   PREFACE.  XI 

of  the  Plants,  is,  in  the  opinion  of  a  celebrated  critic  (Lord 
Jeffrey)  of  the  highest  degree  of  merit ;  as  is  also  The 
Progress  of  Man,  a  parody  on  PAYNE  KNIGHT'S  Progress  of 
Civil  Society ;  and  The  Rovers,  a  burlesque  on  the  German 
dramas  then  in  vogue,  the  extraordinary  plots  of  which, 
as  well  as  their  language,  alternately  ultrasentimeutal 
and  domestically  bathotic,  well  marked  them  out  for 
ridicule,  is  distinguished  by  sharp  wit  and  broad  humour 
of  the  happiest  kind.  CANNING  and  his  coadjutors  in  this 
piece  did  a  real  service  to  literature,  and  assisted  in  a 
purification  which  GIFFORD,  by  his  demolition  of  the  Delia 
Cruscan  school  of  poetry,  had  so  well  begun.  Of  The 
Friend  of  Humanity  and  the  Knife-grinder  it  is  unnecessary 
to  speak ;  perhaps  no  lines  in  the  English  language  have 
been  more  effective,  or  oftener  quoted. 

But  CANNING'S  greatest  power  is  shown  in  New  Morality, 
which,  being  the  last  of  the  series,  seems  to  have  been 
reserved  as  a  concentrating  medium  for  his  pent-up  scorn 
and  contempt  of  the  Whigs  and  their  adherents.  So  that 
their  blows  fall  thick  (for  he  was  powerfully  seconded  by 
Frere,  Gifford,  and  Ellis),  they  care  little  who  suffer  from 
them,  and  the  modern  reader  is  surprised  to  find  CHARLES 
LAMB  and  other  non-intruders  into  politics,  figuring  as 
congenial  conspirators  with  TOM  PAINE  ! 

It  is  somewhat  difficult  to  regard  PITT  in  the  character 
of  a  Wit  and  a  Poet,  as  from  the  narrative  of  most  of  his 
biographers,  he  might  be  considered  as  uniformly  cold, 
stiff,  and  unbending;  but  his  intimate  friend  WILBER- 
FORCE,  in  his  Memoirs,  thus  describes  him  :  "  PITT,  when 
free  from  shyness,  and  amongst  his  intimate  companions, 


Xii  POETRY   OF   THE    ANTI-JACOBIN. 

was  the  very  soul  of  merriment  and  conversation.  He 
was  the  wittiest  man  I  ever  knew,  and  what  was  quite 
peculiar  to  himself,  had  at  all  times  his  wit  under  entire 
controul.  Others  appeared  struck  by  the  unwonted 
association  of  brilliant  images  ;  but  every  possible  com- 
bination of  ideas  seemed  always  present  to  his  mind,  and 
he  could  at  once  produce  whatever  he  desired.  I  was  one 
of  those  who  met  to  spend  an  evening  in  memory  of 
Shakespeare,  at  the  Boar's  Head,  Eastcheap.  Many 
professed  wits  were  present,  but  PITT  was  the  most 
amusing  of  the  party,  the  readiest  and  most  apt  in  the 
required  allusions."  It  is  not,  therefore,  at  all  unlikely, 
that  he  now  and  then  contributed  witty  verses  to  The 
Ant i- Jacobin,  in  addition  to  those  which  the  Editor  has, 
on  probable  grounds,  ascribed  to  him  in  the  present 
volume. 

"  Critical  commentary,"  says  a  critic  of  the  previous 
edition,  "  on  the  merits  of  The  Anti-Jacobin,  would  be 
superfluous.  Its  satire  is  distinguished  for  the  terse 
language  of  its  poignant  personality,  which  was  often 
excessively  stinging,  but  seldom  offensively  coarse.  Its 
best  contributors,  CANNING  and  FEEEE,  were  not  mere 
pamphleteers  in  verse,  like  the  writers  for  The  Rolliad. 
They  had  poetical  inspiration  and  a  sprightly  joyousness 
springing  from  a  genial  play  of  the  mental  faculties. 
They  were  '  Conservatives '  not  only  in  their  politics  but 
in  their  loyal  adherence  to  the  ordinances  and  traditions 
of  classical  English  literature.  False  sentiment,  tumid 
diction,  mawkish  cant,  were  chastised  by  them  with 
exemplary  efficacy.  On  the  fourth  edition  of  the  com- 


EDITOR'S  PREFACE.  xiii 

plete  work  (1799,  2  Vols.  8vo,  containing  both  prose  and 
poetry),  they  placed  the  epigraph,  Sparsosgue  recolligit 
itjne* ;  and  in  the  very  last  paper  (No.  36),  the  motto  on 
discontinuance  was  exquisitely  happy  : — 

"  '  We  shall  miss  thee  ; 
But  yet  thou  shalt  have  freedom. 

So  to  the  elements 
Be  free  ;  and  fare  thou  well !  ' 

"  And  these  lines,  taken  from  The  Tempest  (probably  by 
CANNING),  have  been  prophetic  of  the  popularity  of  their 
witty  verse,  still  quoted  and  admired  by  all  lovers  of  the 
genius  that  is  airily  elegant  and  strong." 

CHAELES  EDMONDS. 
WATER  ORTON,  BIRMINGHAM. 


ADDITIONS  TO  THE  PEESENT  EDITION. 


Numerous  new  Biographical  and  other  Notes. 

Additions  and  Corrections  to  the  List  of  presumed  AUTHORS  of 
"  THE  POETRY  ". 

Selections  from  the  PROSE  portion  of  the  work,  written  by  the 
RT.  HON.  G.  CANNING  and  his  coadjutors. 

Account  of  the  various  EDITIONS  of  The  Anti-Jacobin,  and  its  suc- 
cessors. 

Enlarged  articles  on  the  opposition  NEWSPAPERS  abused  by  The 
Anti-Jacobin  writers. 

The  curious  ABUSIVE  AND  SATIRICAL  INDEX  to  The  Anti-Jacobin ; 
and  specimens  of  a  similar  Index  to  The  Anti-Jacobin  Review 
and  Magazine. 

Selections  from  The  Anti-Jacobin  Review  and  Magazine — the  suc- 
cessor to  The  Anti-Jacobin — showing  that  though  written  by 
a  different  body  of  Authors,  both  works  were  animated  by  the 
same  spirit. 


EDITIONS    OF   THE    ANTI-JACOBIN; 
AND  ITS  SUCCESSORS. 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN,   or  WEEKLY  EXAMINER.     Sparsosque  recolligit  ignes. 
From  Nov.  20,  1797,  to  July  9,  1798.     4to.  London. 

Noa.  1  to  36 ;  with  a  Prospectus  (complete). 

The  Same.    Second  and  third  editions,  in  4to. 

The  Same.    Fourth  edition,  revised  and  corrected.     2  vols.  8vo. 

London,  1799. 

Every  Number  contained  Poetry,  the  presumed  Names  of  the  Authors  of 
which  will  be  found  in  the  Table  of  Contents  of  the  present  volume. 


THE  POETRY  OF  THE  ANTI- JACOBIN.    4to.  London,  1801. 

This  volume  includes  the  whole  of  the  POETRY  contained  in  the  original 
Anti-Jacobin,  with  a  few  verbal  corrections.  Previous  to  its  publicatio_n,  it  was 
announced  that  it  would  be  illustrated  by  40  plates  expressly  designed  by 
GILI.RAY  ;  but  they  never  appeared.  Numerous  editions  in  12mo  subsequently 
appeared,  but  without  any  auditions,  till  those  mentioned  below. 


THE  POETRY  OF  THE  ANTI-JACOBIN.  A  New  Edition,  with  Explanatory  Notes 
by  CHARLES  EDMONDS.  12mo.  London,  185?. 

The  Same.  Second  edition,  by  CHARLES  EDMONDS  ;  with  additional 

Notes,  the  original  Prospectus  (by  the  Rt.  Hon.  G.  CANNING),  and  a  com- 
plete List  of  the  Authors.  Illustrated  by  six  etchings  after  the  designs 
of  JAS.  GlLLRAY.  12mo.  London,  1854. 


THE  ANTI-JACOBIN  REVIEW  AND  MAGAZINE  ;  or  Monthly  Political  and  Literary 
Censor.  From  the  commencement  in  July,  1798,  to  its  close  in  1821. 
(The  first  few  vols.  contain  engravings  by  Gillray  and  others,  and  much 
POETRY  is  scattered  through  the  volumes.)  61  vols.  8vo.  London,  1798-1821. 
For  reasons  stated  on  a  previous  page,  CANNING  and  other  political  friends 
of  PITT  thought  it  prudent  to  withdraw  themselves  from  the  original  Anti- 
Jacobin,  but  by  a  preconcerted  arrangement  it  was  determined  that  the  spirit 
which  had  pervaded  that  work,  and  which  had  had  so  powerful  an  effect  on  the 
popular  mind,  and  thereby,  in  connection  with  Gillray's  caricatures,  so  un- 
doubtedly strengthened  the  hands  of  the  Ministry,  should  not  die,  if  it  could  be 
kept  alive  by  other  and  congenial  writers.  In  the  words  of  MR.  Fox  BOURNE 
(in  his  valuable  work  on  English  Jfticspapers,  1887) :  "  Though  The  Anti-Jacobin 
made  its  last  appearance  on  July  9,  1798,  there  was  started  a  few  days  before  a 
monthly  Anti-Jacobin  Review  and  Magazine  of  the  same  politics,  but  much  less 
brilliant,  and  more  ponderous.  Strange  to  say,  it  also  was  edited  by  a  GIFFOIJD, 
or  one  who  so  called  himself.  JOHN  KICHARDSGUEEN  was  a  bold  and  versatile 
adventurer,  who,  having  to  fly  from  his  creditors  in  1782,  returned  from  France 
in  1788,  as  JOHN  GIFFORD,  and  was  connected  with  several  newspapers  [in- 
cluding the  establishment  of  The  British  Critic],  besides  editing  The  Anti-Jacobin 
Review.  [He  also  wrote  a  History  of  France,  and  other  works.]  Befriended  in 

b 


POETBY   OF   THE   ANTI-JACOBIN. 

many  ways  by  PITT,  he  wrote  a  four-volume  pamphlet  [3  vols.  4to,  and  also 
6  vols.  8vo,  both  dated  1809],  styled  the  Life  of  William  Pitt,  after  his  patron's 
death.  JAMES  MILL,  the  friend  and  associate  of  JEREMY  BENTHAM,  was  glad 
to  earn  money  in  his  struggling  days  by  writing  non-political  articles  for  The 
Anti  Jacobin  Review.  WILLIAM  GiFFORD,  it  is  hardly  necessary  to  state,  besides 
editing  Ben  Jonson's  Works,  and  other  useful  occupations,  was  the  first  editor 
of  The  Quarterly  Review  in  1809." 

In  the  British  Museum  are  two  copies  of  The  Anti-Jacobin  Review  and 
Magazine.  In  one  of  them  the  first  six  vols.  contain  the  Names  of  the  Authors 
of  most  of  the  articles,  among  whom  are  the  REV.  JOHN  WHITAKER,  author  of 
The  History  of  Manchester,  the  REV.  SAM.  HENSHALL,  author  of  works  on  Domes- 
day Book,  the  REV.  C.  E.  STEWART,  a  copious  poetaster,  etc.,  and  many  other 
clergymen. 

THE  NEW  ANTI-JACOBIN  REVIEW.     Delenda  est  Carthago. 

Nos.  1  to  3  seem  to  be  all  that  were  published,  and  appeared  May  6,  June  9, 
and  June  23, 1827  ;  price  two  shillings  each. 

No.  2  includes  what  is  called  a  Patriot  Portrait  Exhibition,  which  is  continued 
in  No.  3.  In  the  latter  No.  is  also  an  article  entitled  Ca.tvwn.gia.na,.  Published 
by  Saunders  and  Otley. 


THE  NEW  ANTI-JACOBIN  ;  a  Monthly  Magazine  of  Politics,  Commerce,  Science, 
Literature,  Art,  Music,  and  the  Drama. 

Consists  of  only  Nos.  1  and  2.  Published  by  Smith,  Elder,  &  Co.,  and 
Carpenter  <fc  Son  ;  dated  respectively  April  and  May,  1833. 

No.  2  contains  Horace  in  Parliament,  an  Ode  to  William  Cobbett ;  being  a 
Parody  on  Horace— In  Barinen,  Ode  4,  Lib.  2.  It  is  accompanied  by  a  full- 
length  portrait  of  Cobbett. 

The  above  two  works,  in  accordance  with  their  titles,  advocate  high  Tory 
principles ;  but  though  written  with  great  spirit  they  had  but  a  very  short 
existence.  Copies  of  both  will  be  found  in  the  British  Museum. 


ENGLISH  ACTORS  IN  THE  FRENCH  REVOLUTION,  AND  EYE-WITNESSES  OF  THE 
SAME. 

The  most  complete  details  hitherto  furnished  on  these  interesting  subjects 
will  be  found  in  the  Nos.  for  October,  1887,  and  July,  1888,  of  The  Edinburgh 
Review,  the  \york  of  MR.  JOHN  G.  ALGER,  the  Paris  correspondent  of  The  Times. 
They  have  since  been  published  in  a  volume.  (Englishmen  in  the  French  Revolu- 
tion: Low&  Co.,  1889.) 


CONTENTS  OF  THE  POETEY  OF  THE  ANTI-JACOBIN, 

WITH  THE  NAMES  OF  THE  AUTHORS. 


The  following  notices  of  the  writers  of  the  POETRY  OF  THE  ANTI-JACOBIN  are 
derived  from  the  copies  mentioned  below,  and  each  name  is  authenticated  by 
the  initials  of  the  authority  upon  which  each  piece  is  ascribed  to  particular 
persons  :— 

C.  . .  CANNING'S  own  copy  of  the  Poetry. 

B.  .  LORD  BURGHERSH'S  copy. 

W. . .  WRIGHT  the  publisher's  copy. 

U.  . .  Information  of  W.  UPCOTT,  amanuensis. 


[Although  many  of  the  pieces  in  the  following  list  are  attributed  to  wrong 
authors,  it  has  been  thought  more  convenient  to  reprint  them  as  they  stood  in 
the  previous  edition,  in  order  to  insert  any  corrections,  as  far  as  FRERE  is  con- 
cerned. These  are  derived  from  the  information  of  FREUE  himself  given  to  his 
nephews,  who  afterwards  edited  his  works  in  1872.  They  are  therefore  placed 
beneath  the  Title  of  the  piece— between  brackets. 

The  pieces,  printed  in  Italics— between  brackets— appear  for  the  first  time  in 
an  edition  of  The  Poetry.— ED.] 

PAGE.  AUTHORS. 

PROSPECTUS  OF  THE  ANTI- JACOBIN  1     Canning. 

Introduction  12      Canning. 

Inscription  for  the  Apartment  in  Chepstow       \ 

Castle,  where  Henry  Marten,  the  Regicide,        >•  Southey. 

was  imprisoned  thirty  years  16  ' 

Inscription  for  the  Door  of  the  Cell  in  New-       ^ 

gate,  where  Mrs.  Brownrigg,  the  Prentice-       I    Canning  ^c 

cide,  was  confined  previous  to  her  execu-        j    ^rere       * 

tion  16' 

The   Friend   of   Humanity  and  the   Knife       \  Frere       \  r 

Grinder   23/  Canning  *    • 

The  Invasion ;  or,  the  British  War  Song 25     Hely  Addington,  W. 

La  Sainte  Guillotine :  a  New  Song,  attempted       \  Canning  )  c 

from  the  French   29)    Hammond,  B. 

[By  Canning  and  Frere  only.] 
[Meeting  of  the  Frieiids  of  Freedom} 32    Claimed  by  Frere, 


XX  POETRY  OF   THE   ANTI- JACOBIN. 

PAGE. 


(   Canning  ) 

i\    Frere       f 

(    Ellis,  B. 


The  Soldier's  Friend  38- 

[By  Canning  and  Frere  only.] 

Sonnet  to  Liberty 39     Lord  Carlisle,  B. 

Quintessence  of  all  the  Dactylics  that  ever      •»   Canning,  B. 

were,  or  ever  will  be,  written 41  /  Gifford,  W. 

Latin  Verses,  written  immediately  after  the       \ 

Revolution  of  the  Fourth  of  September  ...  43/  * 
Translation  of  the  above 45     Frere,  B. 

[PEARCE,  in  his  Memoirs  of  the  Marquis  Wellesley,  gives  the  credit  of  this 
translation  to  the  sixth  EARL  of  CARLISLE.] 

The  Choice ;   imitated  from   The  Battle  of      \ 

Sabla,  in  Carlyle's  Specimens  of  Arabian       V  G.  Ellis,  B. 
Poetry 48 ) 

The  Duke  and  the  Taxing  Man 52     Bar.Macdonald.C. ,B- 

Epigram  on  the  Paris  Loan,  called  the  Loan       ~i 

_,      .      ,  ...  f  Frere,  B. 

upon  England  54J 

[Not  claimed  by  Frere.] 

Ode  to  Anarchy 55      Lord  Morpeth,  B. 

Song,  recommended  to  be  sung  at  all  con-       \ 
vivial  meetings  convened  for  the  purpose       V  Frere,  B. 

of  opposing  the  Assessed  Tax  Bill 58  ) 

[By  Canning,  Ellis,  and  Frere.'] 

Lines  written  at  the  close  of  the  year  1797...  61 
Translation  of  the  New  Song  of  The  Army  of 

England  63 

Epistle  to  the  Editors  of  The  Anti- Jacobin...  68 

[This  Epistle  is  now  known  to  have  been  written  by  the  HON.  WM.  LAMB, 
(afterwards  second  VISCOUNT  MELBOURNE,  and  Prime  Minister). 
He  was  then  only  in  his  nineteenth  year.] 

To  the  Author  of  the  Epistle  to  the  Editors  of      \  Canning,  C. 

the  Anti-Jacobin 7lJ  Hammond/B. 

Ode  to  Lord  Moira   78  G.  Ellis,  C.,  B. 

A  Bit  of  an  Ode  to  Mr.  Fox   83{  §ySV' 

Acme  and  Septimius ;  or,  the  Happy  Union   88  G.  Ellis,  C. 

[Mr.  Fox's  Birth-Day} 90 

To  the  Author  of  the  Anti-Jacobin  95{ 


CONTENTS.  XXI 

PAGE.  AUTHORS. 

Lines  written  under  the  Bust  of  Charles  Fox       \ 

at  the  Crown  and  Anchor   .....................  99/  Frere-  B- 

Lines  written  by  a  Traveller  at  Czarcozelo 

under  the  Bust  of  a  certain  Orator,  once 

placed  between  those  of  Demosthenes  and 

Cicero  ................................................  99) 

[JAS.  BOSWELL,  jun.,  asserts,  on  the  authority  of  the  nephew  of  the 
great  statesman,  that  the  above  lines  were  written  by  PITT.    This  is 
not  improbable  :  see  Note  on  page  101.] 

(    Canning,  C. 
The  Progress  of  Man.    Didactic  Poem  ......  102-^    Gifford,  W. 

(    Frere,  B. 

[Cantos  1  and  2  by  Canning  only  ;  and  Canto  23  by  Canning  and  Frere 
only.] 

The  Progress  of  Man,  continued  ..................  10?} 


Imitation  of  Bion.    Written  at  St.  Anne's       ^    G.  Ellis  B. 

Hill  ...................................................  Ill)  Gifford,'  W.' 

The  New  Coalition  :   Imitation  of  Horace, 

Lib.  3,  Carm.  9  ....................................  114 

[The  Honey  Moon  of  Fox  and  Tooke,  another 

version  of  the  same  by  the  REV.  C.  E. 

STEWABT  ;   published  in  the  Anti-Jacobin 

Review,  vol.  i.]  .....................................  116 

Imitation  of  Horace,  Lib.  3,  Carm.  25  .........  119     Canning,  C. 

Chevy  Chase  ..........................................  125     Bar.Macdonald,C.,B. 

Ode  to  Jacobinism  .................................  129 

The  Progress  of  Man,  continued  ..................  133  1  Frer"1"8'  }  C' 

I  G.  Ellis,  B. 

The  Jacobin  ..........................................  141  Nares,  W. 

The    Loves    of    the    Triangles.     A  Mathe-       •»  Frere,  C. 

matical  and  Philosophical  Poem    .........  145  j  Canning,  B. 

[All  but  the  last  three  lines  Frere's.] 

The  Loves  of  the  Triangles,  continued  .........  158]  ^a,^8'  %'  W- 

[Down  to  "Twine  round  his  struggling  heart,"  by  Ellis.  From  "Thus, 
happy  France,"  to  "And  folds  the  parent-monarch,"  by  Conning, 
SUi»,  and  Frere.  The  next  twelve  lines,  which  were  not  in  the  first 
edition,  1798,  were  added  by  Canning.] 

Brissot's  Ghost  .......................................  165      Frere,  B. 

[Not  claimed  by  Frere.] 

(    Canning  )  B.,  W.,  C. 
The  Loves  of  the  Triangles,  continued  .........  170}    Gifford   5-C. 

C  Frere      J  C. 
[By  Canning,  SUit,  and  Frere.] 


POETRY   OF   THE   ANTI-JACOBIN. 


A  Consolatory  Address  to  his  Gun-Boats.       \  Lord  Morpeth,  B. 
By  Citizen  Muskein 182/ 

Elegy  on  the  Death  of  Jean  Bon  St.  Andre... 185/   Gifford  \C  ' 

I  Frere      )  C. 
[By  Canning,  Ellis,  and  Frere.} 

Ode  to  my  Country,  MDCCXCVIII    19l|  B.  B.  fc- 

V.   Hammond,  B. 
[This  is  not  claimed  by  Frere.] 

Ode  to  the  Director  Merlin 199     Lord  Morpeth,  B. 

f  Frere 
G^ 
Canning  B. 

[Ace  1,  Sc.  1  and  2,  by  Frere— Song  by  Canning  and  Ellis ;  Act  2,  Sc.  1 
and  3,  and  Act  3,  by  Canning;  Act  2,  Sc.  2,  and  Act  4,  by  Frere. 
The  preliminary  prose  by  Frere  and  Canning.] 

The  Rovers ;  or,  the  Double  Arrangement,        (   Gig^d   ( 

continued 2101    Ellis       [c- 

V    Canning ) 

An  Affectionate  Effusion  of  Citizen  Muskein       ) 

to  Havre-de-Grace   236/  L°rd  Morpeth'  R 

Translation  of  a  Letter  from  Bawba-dara-        (   yjiis       )  Q 

adulphoola,  to  Neek-awl-aretchidkooez  ..  239 1    Canning  ("B. 

(    Frere      ) 
[By  Canning,  Ellis,  and  Frere.] 

[Buonaparte's  Letter  to  the   Commandant  at 

Zante] 248 

Ode  to  a  Jacobin  251 

Ballynahinch ;  A  New  Song  255      Canning,  C. 

De  Navali  Laude  Britannise  ...257     Canning,  B. 

[Translation  of  the  above 260 -!    The  late  A.  F.  West- 

(       mucott.] 
[Valedictory  Address] 263 

Canning  \  B 

New  Morality   27lJ    Frere 

<    Gifford 
G.  Ellis 


CONTENTS.  XX111 

LINE. 

1    From  Mental  Mists Frere,  W. 

15    Yet  venial  Vices,  &c Canning,  W. 

29    Bethink  thee,  Gifford,  &c.    These  lines  were  written  by  CANNING  some 
years  before  he  had  any  personal  acquaintance  with  GIFFORD. 

71    Awake  !  for  shame  ! Canning,  W. 

158    Fond  Hope! Frere,  W. 

168    Such  is  the  liberal  Justice Canning,  W. 

(  Frere  ) 
249  O  !  Nurse  of  Crimes 1  Canning  >  W. 

(  G.  Ellis  ) 
261  See  Louvet Canning,  W. 

287    But  hold,  severer  Virtue |  Canning  I  W> 

r  Frere       } 

302    To  thee  proud  Barras  bows <  Canning  >  W. 

I  Ellis         \ 


318    Ere  long,  perhaps | 


Gifford 


W. 


328 


Couriers  and  Stars ]  King  }  W' 

356    Britain,  beware Canning,  W. 

372    So  thine  own  Oak attributed  to  W.  Pitt. 

"  WRIGHT,  the  publisher  of  the  Anti-Jacobin,  lived  at  169,  Piccadilly,  and 
his  shop  was  the  general  morning  resort  of  the  friends  of  the  ministry,  as 
DEBRETT'S  was  of  the  oppositionists.  About  the  time  when  the  Anti-Jacobin 
was  contemplated,  OWEN,  who  had  been  the  publisher  of  BURKE'S  pamphlets, 
failed.  The  editors  of  the  Anti-Jacobin  took  his  house,  paying  the  rent,  taxes, 
&c.,  and  gave  it  up  to  WRIGHT,  reserving  to  themselves  the  first  floor,  to  which 
a  communication  was  opened  through  WRIGHT'S  house.  Being  thus  enabled  to 
pass  to  their  own  rooms  through  WRIGHT'S  shop,  where  their  frequent  visits 
did  not  excite  any  remarks,  they  contrived  to  escape  particular  observation." 

"  Their  meetings  were  most  regular  on  Sundays,  but  they  not  unfrequently 
met  on  other  days  of  the  week,  and  in  their  rooms  were  chiefly  written  the 
poetical  portions  of  the  work.  What  was  written  was  generally  left  open  upon  the 
table,  and  as  others  of  the  party  dropped  in,  hints  or  suggestions  were  made  ; 
sometimes  whole  passages  were  contributed  by  some  of  the  parties  present,  and 
afterwards  altered  by  others,  so  that  it  is  almost  impossible  to  ascertain  the 
names  of  the  authors.  Where,  in  the  above  notes,  a  piece  is  ascribed  to  different 
authors,  the  conflicting  statements  may  arise  from  incorrect  information,  but 
sometimes  they  arise  from  the  whole  authorship  being  assigned  to  one  person, 
when,  in  fact,  both  may  have  contributed.  If  we  look  at  the  references,  167, 
185,  we  shall  see  CANNING  naming  several  authors,  whereas  LORD  BURGHERSH 
assigns  all  to  one  author.  CANNING'S  authority  is  here  more  to  be  relied  upon. 
New  Morality  CANNING  assigns  generally  to  the  four  contributors.  WRIGHT  has 
given  some  interesting  particulars  by  appropriating  to  each  his  peculiar  portion." 

"  GIFFORD  was  the  working  editor,  and  wrote  most  of  the  refutations  and 
corrections  of  the  Lies,  Mistake*,  and  Misrepresentations." 

"  The  papers  on  finance  were  chiefly  by  PITT  :  the  first  column  was  frequently 
kept  for  what  he  might  send ;  but  his  contributions  were  uncertain,  and  generally 
very  late,  so  that  the  space  reserved  fur  him  was  sometimes  filled  up  by  other 
matter.  He  only  once  met  the  editors  at  WRIGHT'S." 

"  W.  UPCOTT,  who  was  at  the  time  assistant  in  WRIGHT'S  shop,  was  employed 
as  amanuensis,  to  copy  out  for  the  printer  the  various  contributions,  that 
the  author's  handwriting  might  not  be  detected."— S.  Hawkins. 


"THE  RIGHT  HON.  GEORGE  CANNING  AS  A  MAN  OF  LETTERS." 

[The  following  is  part  of  a  review,  under  the  above  title,  of  the  present  editor's 
previous  edition  of  The  Poetry  of  the  Anti-Jacobin,  and  appeared  in  The  Edinburgh 
Review  of  July,  1858.  It  is  reprinted  in  the  Biographical  and  Critical  Essays  of 
A.  HAYWARD,  Esq.,  Q.C.,  2  vols.,  8vo.,  1873.  It  is  introduced  here  as  throwing 
some  additional  light  on  the  Writers  of  the  various  pieces.] 

"...  We  can  hardly  say  of  CANNING'S  satire  what  was  said  of  SHERIDAN'S, 
that— 

"  '  His  wit  in  the  combat,  as  gentle  as  bright, 
Never  carried  a  heart-stain  away  on  its  blade '. 

But  its  severity  was  redeemed  by  its  buoyancy  and  geniality,  whilst  the  subjects 
against  which  it  was  principally  aimed  gave  it  a  healthy  tone  and  a  sound 
foundation.  Its  happiest  effusions  will  be  found  in  The  Anti-Jacobin,  set  on  foot 
to  refute  or  ridicule  the  democratic  rulers  of  revolutionary  France  and  their 
admirers  or  apologists  in  England,  who,  it  must  be  owned,  were  occasionally 
hurried  into  a  culpable  degree  of  extravagance  and  laxity  by  their  enthu- 
siasm. .  ." 

"  We  learn  from  MR.  EDMONDS  that  almost  all  his  authorities  practically 
resolve  themselves  into  one,  the  late  MR.  W.  UPCOTT,  and  that  he  never  saw 
either  of  the  alleged  copies  on  which  his  informant  relied.  As  regards  the 
principal  one,  CANNING'S  own,  after  the  fullest  inquiries  amongst  his  surviving 
relatives  and  friends,  we  cannot  discover  a  trace  of  its  existence  at  any  period. 
LORD  BURGHERSH  (the  late  EARL  OF  WESTMORELAND)  was  under  fourteen 
years  of  age  during  the  publication  of  The  Anti-Jacobin ;  and  we  very  much 
doubt  whether  either  the  publisher  or  the  amanuensis  (be  he  who  he  may)  was 
admitted  to  the  complete  confidence  of  the  contributors,  or  whether  either  the 
prose  or  poetry  was  composed  as  stated.  In  a  letter  to  the  late  MADAME  DE 
GIRARDIN,  d  propos  of  her  play,  L'tfcole  des  Journalistes,  JULES  JANIN  happily 
exposes  the  assumption  that  good  leading  articles  ever  were,  or  ever  could  be, 
produced  over  punch  and  broiled  bones,  amidst  intoxication  and  revelry. 
Equally  untenable  is  the  belief  that  poetical  pieces,  like  the  best  of  The  Anti- 
Jacobin,  were  written  in  the  common  rooms  of  the  confraternity,  open  to 
constant  intrusion,  and  left  upon  the  table  to  be  corrected  or  completed  by  the 
first  comer.  The  unity  of  design  discernible  in  each,  the  glowing  harmony  of 
the  thoughts  and  images,  and  the  exquisite  finish  of  the  versification,  tell  of 
silent  and  solitary  hours  spent  in  brooding  over,  maturing,  and  polishing  a 
cherished  conception  ;  and  young  authors,  still  unknown  to  fame,  are  least  of 
all  likely  to  sink  their  individuality  in  this  fashion.  We  suspect  that  their 
main  object  in  going  to  WRIGHT'S  was  to  correct  their  proofs  and  see  one 
another's  articles  in  the  more  finished  state.  Their  meetings,  if  for  these 
purposes,  would  be  most  regular  on  Sundays,  because  the  paper  appeared 
every  Monday  morning  The  extent  to  which  they  aided  one  another  may  be 
collected  from  a  well-authenticated  anecdote.  When  FRERE  had  completed 
the  first  part  of  The  Loves  of  the_  Triangles,  he  exultingly  read  over  the  following 
lines  to  CANNING,  and  defied  him  to  improve  upon  them  : — 


"  '  Lo,  where  the  chimney's  sooty  tube  ascends, 
The  fair  TROCHAIS  from  the  corner  bends  ! 


CANNING   AS   A   MAN    OF   LETTERS.  XXV 

Mark,  how  his  various  i>arts  together  tend, 
Point  to  one  purpose, — in  one  object  end  ; 
The  spiral  grooves  in  smooth  meanders  flow, 
Drags  the  long  chain,  the  polished  axles  glow, 
While  slowly  circumvolves  the  piece  of  beef  below  : ' 

"  CANNING  took  the  pen  and  added— 

"  '  The  conscious  fire  with  bickering  radiance  burns, 
Eyes  the  rich  joint,  and  roasts  it  as  it  turns '. 

"  These  two  lines  are  now  blended  with  the  original  text,  and  constitute,  we 
are  informed  on  the  best  authority,  the  only  flaw  in  FRERE'S  title  to  the  sole 
authorship  of  the  First  Part.  The  Second  and  Third  Parts  were  by  CANNING. 

"  By  the  kindness  of  [the  late]  LORD  HATHERTON,  we  have  now  before  us  a 
bound  volume  containing  all  the  numbers  of  The  Anti-Jacobin  as  they  originally 

On  the 
was 
On 
ihe  cover  is  pasted  an  engraved  label  of  the  arms  and  name  of  a  former 

Eroprietor,  CHARLES  WILLIAM  FLINT,  with  the  pencilled  addition  of  '  Con- 
dential  Amanuensis '.  In  this  copy  CANNING'S  name  is  subsci'ibed  to  (amongst 
others)  the  following  pieces,  which  are  also  assigned  to  him  (along  with  a  large 
share  m  the  most  popular  of  the  rest)  by  the  most  trustworthy  rumours  and 
traditions  : — Inscription  for  the  Door  of  the  Cell  in  Newgate  where  Mrs.  Brownrigg, 
the  Prenticide,  was  confined  previous  to  her  execution  ;  The  Friend  of  Humanity  and 
the  Knife-Grinder ;  the  lines  addressed  To  the  Author  of  the  Epistle  to  the  Editors 
of  The  Anti-Jacobin  ;  The  Progress  of  Man  (all  three  parts)  ;  and  New  Morality.* 

"  With  the  single  exception  of  The  Friend  of  Humanity  and  the  Knife-Grinder, 
no  piece  in  the  collection  is  more  freshly  remembered  than  the  Inscription  for 
the  Cell  of  Mrs.  Brownrigg,  who 

"  '  Whipp'd  two  female  prentices  to  death, 
And  hid  them  in  the  coal-hole '. 

"  The  Answer  to  The  Author  of  the  Epistle  to  the  Editors  of  The  Anti-Jacobin  is  less 
known,  and  it  derives  a  fresh  interest  from  the  fact,  recently  [c.  1854]  made 
public,  that  The  Epistle  (which  appeared  in  The  Morning  Chronicle  of  January 
17, 1798)  was  the  composition  of  WILLIAM  LORD  MELBOURNE.  The  beginning 
shows  that  the  veil  of  incognito  had  been  already  penetrated. 

"  'Whoe'er  ye  are,  all  hail ! — whether  the  skill 
Of  youthful  CANNING  guides  the  ranc'rous  quill ; 
With  powers  mechanic  far  above  his  age, 
Adapts  the  paragraph  and  fills  the  page  ; 
Measures  the  column,  mends  whate  er's  amiss, 
Rejects  THAT  letter,  and  accepts  of  THIS  ; 
Or  HAMMOND,  leaving  his  official  toil, 
O'er  this  great  work  consume  the  midnight  oil — 
Bills,  passports,  letters,  for  the  Muses  quit, 
And  change  dull  business  for  amusing  wit.' 

"  After  referring  to  '  the  poetic  sage,  who  sung  of  Gallia  in  a  headlong  rage,' 
The  Epistle  proceeds : — 

" '  I  swear  by  all  the  youths  that  MALMESBURY  chose, t 
By  ELLIS'  sapient  prominence  of  nose — 

*  On  the  subject  of  the  respective  authorship  of  the  contributions  to  The 
Anti-Jacobin,  see  The  Works  of  John  Hookham  Frere,  in  verse  and  prose,  with 
Prefatory  Memoir.  Edited  by  his  Nephews,  H.  and  Sir  Bartle  Frere,  and  The  Edin- 
burgh Review  for  April,  1872,  p.  470. 

t  It  will  be  remembered  that  these  eminent  persons  were  chosen  by  Lord 
Malmesbury  to  accompany  him  on  his  mission  to  Lille  and  were  associated  with 
him  in  the  abortive  negotiations  for  peace. 


XXVI  POETRY   OF   THE   ANTI-JACOBIN. 

By  MOFPETH'S  gait,  important,  proud  and  big— 

By  Levegon  Cowers  crop-imitating  wig, 

That,  could  the  pow'rs  which  in  those  numbers  shine, 

Could  that  warm  spirit  animate  my  line, 

Your  glorious  deeds  which  humbly  I  rehearse — 

Your  deeds  should  live  immortal  as  my  verse  ; 

And,  while  they  wonder'd  whence  I  caught  my  flame, 

Your  sons  should  blush  to  read  their  fathers'  shame '. 

"  Happily  the  eminent  and  accomplished  sons  of  these  fathers  will  smile, 
rather  than  blush,  at  this  allusion  to  their  sires,  and  smile  the  more  when  they 
remember  from  which  side  the  attack  proceeded.  It  is  clear  from  the  Ans_wer, 
that,  whilst  the  band  were  not  a  little  ruffled,  they  had  not  the  remotest  suspicion 
that  their  assailant  was  a  youth  in  his  nineteenth  year.  Amongst  other  prefatory 
remarks  they  say  :— 

"  '  We  assure  the  author  of  the  epistle,  that  the  answer  which  we  have  here 
the  honour  to  address  to  him,  contains  our  genuine  and  undisguised  sentiments 
upon  the  merits  of  the  poem. 

"  '  Our  conjectures  respecting  the  authors  and  abettors  of  this  performance 
may  possibly  be  as  vague  and  unfounded  as  theirs  are  with  regard  to  the 
EDITORS  of  The  Anti-Jacobin.  We  are  sorry  that  we  cannot  satisfy  their 
curiosity  upon  this  subject — but  we  have  little  anxiety  for  the  gratification  of 
our  own. 

"  '  It  is  only  necessary  to  add,  what  is  most  conscientiously  the  truth,  that  this 
production,  such  as  it  is,  is  by  far  the  (test  of  all  the  attacks  that  the  combined 
wits  of  the  cause  have  been  able  to  muster  against  The  Anti- Jacobin.' 

"  The  Answer  opens  thus  :— 

"  '  BARD  of  the  borrow'd  lyre  !  to  whom  belong 

The  shreds  and  remnants  of  each  hackney'd  song  ; 
Whose  verse  thy  friends  in  vain  for  wit  explore, 
And  count  but  one  good  line,  in  eighty-four  ! 
Whoe'er  thou  art,  all  hail !    Thy  bitter  smile 
Gilds  our  dull  page,  and  cheers  our  humble  toil ! ' 

"  The  '  one  good  line '  was  '  By  Leveson  Gower's  crop-imitating  wig,'  but  the 
Epistle  contains  many  equally  good  and  some  better.  The  speculations  as  to 
its  authorship  afforded  no  slight  amusement  to  the  writer  and  his  friends.  .  .  . 

"New  Morality  is  commonly  regarded  as  the  master-piece  of  The  Anti-Jacobin; 
and,  with  the  exception  of  a  few  lines,  the  whole  of  it  is  by  CANNING.  It  ap- 
peared in  the  last  number,  and  he  is  said  to  have  concentrated  all  his  energies 
for  a  parting  blow.  The  reader  who  comes  fresh  from  DRYDEN  or  POPE,  or  even 
CHURCHILL,  will  be  disappointed  on  finding  far  less  variety  of  images,  sparkling 
antithesis,  or  condensed  brilliancy  of  expression.  The  author  exhibits  abundant 
humour  and  eloquence,  but  comparatively  little  wit ;  i.e.,  if  there  be  any  truth 
in  SYDNEY  SMITH'S  doctrine  '  that  the  feeling  of  wit  is  occasioned  by  those 
relations  of  ideas  which  excite  surprise,  and  surprise  alone '.  We  are  commonly 
prepared  for  what  is  coming,  and  our  admiration  is  excited  rather  by  the  just- 
ness of  the  observations,  the  elevation  of  the  thoughts,  and  the  vigour  of  the 
style,  than  by  a  startling  succession  of  flashes  of  fancy.  If,  as  we  believe,  the 
same  might  be  said  of  JUVENAL,  and  the  best  of  his  English  imitators,  JOHNSON, 
we  leave  ample  scope  for  praise  ;  and  Neiu  Morality  contains  passages  which  have 
been  preserved  to  our  time  and  bid  fair  to  reach  posterity.  How  often  are  the 
lines  on  Candour  quoted  in  entire  ignorance  or  forgetfulness  of  their  author.  .  .  . 

"  The  drama  of  The  Rovers,  or  Double  Arrangement,  was  written  to  ridicule  the 
German  Drama,  then  hardly  known  in  this  country,  except  through  the  medium 
of  bad  translations  of  some  of  the  least  meritorious  of  SCHILLER'S,  GOETHE'S, 
and  KOTZEBUE'S  productions.  The  parody  is  now  principally  remembered  by 
Bogero's  song,  of  which,  Mr.  Edmonds  states,  the  first  five  stanzas  were  by 
CANNING.  "Having  been  accidentally  seen,  previously  to  its  publication,  by 
PITT,  he  was  so  amused  with  it  that  he  took  a  pen  and  composed  the  last  stanza 
on  the  spot.  .  .  . 


CANNING   AS   A    MAN    OF   LETTERS.  XXV11 

"  CANNING'S  reputed  share  in  The  Rovers  excited  the  unreasoning  indignation, 
and  provoked  the  exaggerated  censure,  of  a  man  who  has  obtained  a  world-wide 
reputation  by  his  historical  researches,  most  especially  by  his  skill  in  separating 
the  true  from  the  fabulous,  and  in  filling  up  chasms  in  national  annals  by  a  pro- 
cess near  akin  to  that  by  which  CUVIER  inferred  the  entire  form  and  structure 
of  an  extinct  species  from  a  bone.  The  following  passage  is  taken  from 
NIKBUHR'S  History  of  the  Period  of  the  Revolution  (published  from  his  Lectures,  in 
two  volumes,  in  1845) : — 

"  '  CANNING  was  at  that  time  (1807)  at  the  head  of  foreign  affairs  in  England. 
History  will  not  form  the  same  judgment  of  him  as  that  formed  by  contempo- 
raries. He  had  great  talents,  but  was  not  a  great  Statesman  ;  he  was  one  of 
those  persons  who  distinguish  themselves  as  the  squires  of  political  heroes. 
He  was  highly  accomplished  in  the  two  classical  languages,  but  without  being 
a  learned  scholar.  He  was  especially  conversant  with  Greek  writers.  He  had 
likewise  poetical  talent,  but  only  for  Satire.  At  first  he  had  joined  the  leaders 
of  opposition  against  PITT'S  ministry  :  LORD  GREY,  who  perceived  his  ambition, 
advised  him,  half  in  joke,  to  join  the  ministers,  as  he  would  make  his  fortune. 
He  did  so,  and  was  employed  to  write  articles  for  the  newspapers  and  satirical 
verses,  which  were  often  directed  against  his  former  benefactors. 

"  '  Through  the  influence  of  the  ministers  he  came  into  Parliament.  So  long 
as  the  great  eloquence  of  former  times  lasted,  and  the  great  men  were  alive,  his 
talent  was  admired  ;  but  older  persons  had  no  great  pleasure  in  his  petulant, 
epigrammatic  eloquence  and  his  jokes,  which  were  often  in  bad  taste.  He 
joined  the  Society  of  the  Anti-Jacobins,  which  defended  everything  connected 
with  existing  institutions.  This  society  published  a  journal,  in  which  the  most 
honoured  names  of  foreign  countries  were  attacked  in  the  most  scandalous 
manner.  German  literature  was  at  that  time  little  known  in  England,  and  it 
was  associated  there  with  the  ideas  of  Jacobinism  and  revolution.  CANNING 
then  published  in  '/'/»  Anti-Jacobin  the  most  shameful  pasquinade  which  was 
ever  written  against  Germany,  under  the  title  of  Matilda  Pottingen.  Gottingen 
is  described  in  it  as  the  sink  of  all  infamy  ;  professors  and  students  as  a  gang  of 
miscreants  ;  licentiousness,  incest,  and  atheism  as  the  character  of  the  German 
people.  Such  was  CANNING'S  beginning  :  he  was  at  all  events  useful,  a  sort  of 
political  Cossack '  (Geschichte  ties  Zeitalttrs  der  Revolution,  vol.  ii.,  p.  242). 

"  '  Here  am  I,'  exclaimed  RALEIGH,  after  vainly  trying  to  get  at  the  rights  of 
a  squabble  in  the  courtyard  of  the  Tower,  '  employed  in  writing  a  true  history 
of  the  world,  when  I  cannot  ascertain  the  truth  of  what  happens  under  my 
own  window.'  Here  is  the  great  restorer  of  Roman  history— who,  by  the  way, 
prided  himself  on  his  knowledge  of  England— hurried  into  the  strangest 
misconception  of  contemporary  events  and  personages,  and  giving  vent  to  a  series 
of  depreciatory  misstatements,  without  pausing  to  verify  the  assumed  ground- 
work  of  his  patriotic  wrath.  His  description  of  '  the  most  shameful  pasquinade," 
and  his  ignorance  of  the  very  title,  prove  that  he  had  never  seen  it  If  he  had, 
he  would  also  have  known  that  the  scene  is  laid  at  Weimar,  not  at  Gottingen, 
and  that  the  satire  is  almost  exclusively  directed  against  a  portion  of  the 
dramatic  literature  of  his  country,  which  all  rational  admirers  must  admit  to  be 
indefensible.  The  scene  in  The  Rm\>-*,  in  which  the  rival  heroines,  meeting  for 
the  first  time  at  an  inn,  swear  eternal  friendship  and  embrace,  is  positively  a 
feeble  reflection  of  a  scene  in  GOETHE'S  titilta ;  and  no  anachronism  can  exceed 
that  in  SCHILLER'S  Cabal  und  Lithe,  when  Lady  Milford,  after  declaring  herself 
the  daughter  of  the  Duke  of  Norfolk  who  rebelled  against  Queen  Elizabeth,  is 
horrified  on  finding  that  the  jewels  sent  her  by  the  Grand  Duke  have  been 
purchased  by  the  sale  of  7000  of  his  subjects  to  be  employed  in  the  American 
war.* 

*  It  is  surprising  that  the  satirist's  attention  was  not  attracted  to  the  scene 
in  Xtetta,  in  which  one  of  the  heroines  describes  the  rapid  growth  of  her  passion 
to  its  object:  "  I  know  not  if  you  observed  that  you  had  enchained  my  interest 
from  the  first  moment  of  our  first  meeting.  I  at  least  soon  became  aware  that 
your  eyes  sought  mine.  Ah,  Fernando,  then  my  uncle  brought  the  music,  you 
took  your  violin,  and,  as  you  played,  my  eyes  rested  upon  you  free  from  care.  I 
studied  every  feature  of  your  face  ;  and,  during  an  unexpected  pause,  you  fixed 


POETKY   OF   THE   ANTI-JACOBIN. 

"  Amongst  the  prose  contributions  to  The  Anti-Jacobin,  there  is  one  in  which, 
independently  of  direct  evidence,  the  peculiar  humour  of  CANNING  is  discernible, 
—the  pretended  report  of  the  meeting  of  the  Friends  of  Freedom  at  the  Crown 
and  Anchor  Tavern.*  The  plan  was  evidently  suggested  by  TICKELL'S  Antici- 
pation, in  which  the  debate  on  the  Address  at  the  opening  of  the  Session  was 
reported  beforehand  with  such  surprising  foresight,  that  some  of  the  speakers, 
•who  were  thus  forestalled,  declined  to  deliver  their  meditated  orations. 

"At  the  meeting  of  the  Friends  of  Freedom,  EKSKINE,  whose  habitual 
egotism  could  hardly  be  caricatured,  is  made  to  perorate  as  follows,  &c.  .  .  . 
A  long  speech  is  given  to  MACKINTOSH,  who,  under  the  name  of  Macfunyus, 
after  a  fervid  sketch  of  the  Temple  of  Freedom  which  he  proposes  to  construct 
on  the  ruins  of  ancient  establishments,  proceeds  with  kindling  animation, 
&c.  .  .  .t 

"The  wit  and  fun  of  these  imitations  are  undeniable,  and  their  injustice  is 
equally  so.  ERSKINE,  with  all  his  egotism,  was,  and  remains,  the  greatest  of 
English  advocates.  He  stemmed  and  turned  the  tide  which  threatened  to 
sweep  away  the  most  valued  of  our  free  institutions  in  1794  ;  and  (we  say 
with  LORD  BROUGHAM)  '  Before  such  a  precious  service  as  this,  well  may  the 
lustre  of  statesmen  and  orators  grow  pale '.  MACKINTOSH  was  pre-eminently 
distinguished  by  the  comprehensiveness  and  moderation  of  his  views  ;  nor  could 
any  man  be  less  disposed  by  temper,  habits,  or  pursuits  towards  revolutionary 
courses.  His  lectures  on  The  Law  of  Nature  and  Nations  were  especially  directed 
against  the  new  morality  in  general,  and  GODWIN'S  Political  Justice  in  particular. 

"  At  a  long  subsequent  period  (1807)  CANNING,  when  attacked  in  Parliament 
for  his  share  in  The  Anti-Jacobin,  declared  that  '  he  felt  no  shame  for  its 
character  or  principles,  nor  any  other  sorrow  for  the  share  he  had  had  in  it 
than  that  which  the  imperfection  of  his  pieces  was  calculated  to  inspire  '.  Still, 
it  is  one  of  the  inevitable  inconveniences  of  a  connection  with  the  Press  that 
the  best  known  writers  should  be  made  answerable  for  the  errors  of  their 
associates  ;  and  the  license  of  The  Anti-Jacobin  gave  serious  and  well-founded 
offence  to  many  who  shared  its  opinions  and  wished  well  to  its  professed  object. 
In  WILBEIIFORCE'S  Diary  for  May  18, 17;>9,  we  find  '  PITT,  CANNING,  and  PEPPER, 
AKDEN  came  in  late  to  dinner.  I  attacked  CANNING  on  indecency  of  Anti- 
Jacobin.'  COLERIDGE,  in  his  Biographia,  Literaria,  complains  bitterly  of  the 
calumnious  accounts  given  by  The  Anti-Jacobin  of  his  early  life,  and  asks  with 
reason,  '  Is  it  surprising  that  many  good  men  remained  longer  than  perhaps 
they  otherwise  would  have  done  adverse  to  a  party  which  encouraged  and 
openly  rewarded  the  authors  of  such  atrocious  calumnies  ? ' 

"  Mr.  Edmonds  says  that  PITT  got  frightened,  and  that  the  publication  was 
discontinued  at  the  suggestion  of  the  Prime  Minister.  It  is  not  unlikely  that 
CANNING,  now  a  member  of  the  House  of  Commons  and  Under-Secretary  of 
State  for  Foreign  Affairs,  found  his  connection  with  it  embarrassing,  as  his 
hopes  rose  and  his  political  prospects  expanded.  Indeed,  it  may  be  questioned 
whether  a  Parliamentary  career  can  ever  be  united  with  that  of  the  daily  or 
weekly  journalist  without  compromising  one  or  both.  At  all  events,  the 
originil  Anti-Jacobin  closed  with  the  number  containing  New  Morality,  and 
CANNING  had  nothing  to  do  with  the  monthly  review  started  under  the  same 
name." 

your  eyes  upon— upon  me !  They  met  mine !  How  I  blushed,  how  I  looked 
away  !  You  observed  it,  Fernando  ;  for  from  that  moment  I  felt  that  you 
looked  oftener  over  your  music-book,  often  played  out  of  tune,  to  the  dis- 
turbance of  my  uncle.  Every  false  note,  Fernando,  went  to  my  heart.  It  was 
the  sweetest  confusion  I  ever  felt  in  my  life." 

*  The  whole  of  this  jeu  d'esprit  has  been  claimed  for  FRERE,  but  on  unsatis- 
factory evidence.  It  is  much  more  in  CANNING'S  way  as  a  student  of  oratory 
which  FRERE  was  not. 

[t  See  pages  32,  34.— ED.] 


THE  ANTI-JACOBIN  AS  AN  AID  TO  GOVERNMENT. 

[Considering  The  Anti-Jacobin  from  a  national  as  well  as  a  literary  point  of 
view,  we  cannot  do  better  than  use  a  portion  of  an  Essay  on  English  Political 
Satires  by  the  late  JAS.  HANNAY,  in  the  Quarterly  Review,  April,  1857.] 

"...  In  the  case  of  The  Anti-Jacobin,  what  are  we  to  say?  A  hundred 
opinions  may  be  adopted  respecting  the  French  Revolution.  Some  hate  it  with 
unmitigated  hatred.  Some  regret  it,  but  accept  its  consequences  as  beneficial 
to  mankind  on  the  whole.  Seme  cherish  its  memory  as  a  new  political  revela- 
tion of  which  they  hope  to  see  still  further  results.  But  a  candid  man  of  any 
of  these  persuasions  must  remember  that  the  aim  of  The  Anti-Jacobin  was  to 
keep  Britain  from  revolution  during  1797-8.  It  was  therefore  necessary  to  fight 
as  our  soldiers  afterwards  did  in  Spain — to  wage  such  a  literary  war  as  suited 
the  agitated  spirit  of  Europe.  While  we  blame  CANNING,  therefore,  for  speaking 
as  he  did  of  MADAME  ROLAND,  we  must  not  forget  the  indecorum  of  her 
Memoirs,  or  that  it  was  from  persons  of  her  party  that  vile  aspersions  were  cast 
upon  the  character  of  MARIE  ANTOINETTE.  There  were  men  quite  ready  to 
begin  the  same  work  over  here  that  had  been  done  in  France,  and  that  in  a 
spirit  of  vulgar  imitation,  and  under  quite  different  circumstances.  They_  had 
to  be  shot  down  like  mad  dogs ;  for  a  cur,  though  contemptible  in  ordinary 
cases,  becomes  tragic  when  he  has  hydrophobia. 

"  For  The  Anti-  Jacobin  must  be  claimed  an  honour  which  can  be  claimed  for 
scarce  one  of  the  works  we  have  passed  under  review.  Let  us  waive  the 
question  how  much  we  may  have  owed  it  for  helping  to  inspire  that  unity  and 
stout  insular  self-confidence  which  carried  us  through  the  great  war,— whole 
within  and  impervious  without.  Let  us  consider  it  only  in  a  literary  point  of 
view,  and  we  shall  find  it  enjoying  the  rare  distinction  that  its  best  Satires  live 
in  real  popular  remembrance.  The  Knije-Grinder,  with  his 

"  '  Story  !  God  bless  you,  I  have  none  to  tell,  sir,' 

is  almost  as  widely  known  as  our  nursery  rhymes. 

"  But  if  The  Anti-Jacobin  excels  all  similar  works  in  popularity,  and  in  the 
eminence  of  its  contributors,  it  also  excels  them  in  another  important  particular. 
It  contains  on  the  whole  a  greater  number  of  really  good  things  than  any  one 
of  them.  The  Loves  of  the  Triangles,  in  which, 

"  '  Th"  obedient  Pulley  strong  Mechanics  ply, 
And  wanton  Optics  roll  the  melting  eye  ! ' 

is  an  irresistible  parody,  and  likely  to  keep  the  original  of  Darwin  [Lores  of  the 
PlanU]  in  remembrance.  Gray's  Odes  have  survived  the  burlesques  of  Colman  ; 
and  the  Country  and  City  Mouse  of  Prior  and  Montague  is  neglected  by  nine- 
tenths  of  those  who  read  with  admiration  the  Hind  and  the  Panther.  But 
Darwin's  case  is  peculiar.  Other  poems  live  in  spite  of  ridicule  ;  and  his  Loves 
of  the  Plants  in  consequence  of  it.  The  Attic  salt  of  his  enemies  has  preserved 
his  reputation. 

"  There  is  always  a  purpose  in  The  Anti-Jacobin's  view  something  more 
important  than  the  mere  persiflage  that  teases  individuals.  Like  the  blade  of 
Damascus,  which  has  a  verse  of  the  Koran  engraved  on  it,  its  fine  wit  glitters 
terribly  in  the  cause  of  sacred  tradition." 


DESCRIPTION  OF  THE  PLATES. 


THE  GIANT  FACTOTUM  AMUSING  HIMSELF.    (FRONTISPIECE.) 

PITT,  with  his  right  hand  is  playing  at  cup  and  ball ;  the  latter  being 
a  globe  to  denote  his  influence  over  foreign  countries  as  well  as  at 
home.  His  right  foot  is  supported  by  DUNDAS  and  WILBKRFORCE,  and 
is  extended  to  be  submissively  kissed  by  his  ministerial  followers,  fore- 
most of  whom  is  CANNING.  With  his  left  foot  he  has  crushed  the 
Opposition.  On  the  same  side  is  a  document  labelled  "  Resources  for 
supporting  the  War,"  with  a  collection  of  coin,  evidently  destined  for 
foreign  subsidies.  On  his  right  side  are  various  official  returns  of 
volunteers,  seamen,  regulars,  and  militia.  He  is  thus  prepared  to 
carry  on  the  war  abroad,  and  maintain  tranquillity  at  home. 

THE  FRIEND  OF  HUMANITY  AND  THE  KNIFE-GRINDER. 

Page  23 

Scene,  the  Borough  of  Southwark,  with  a  portrait  of  GEORGE  TIER- 
NEY,  its  able  and  radical  representative.  Published  Dec.  4, 1797,  as  a 
graphic  illustration  of  the  Parody  of  Southey's  poem,  The  Widow. 

LORD   LONGBOW,   THE   ALARMIST,   DISCOVERING    THE   MISE- 
RIES OF  IRELAND Page  78 

A  characteristic  portrait  of  the  gallant  and  excellent  EARL  OF  MOIRA, 
afterwards  MARQUIS  OF  HASTINGS,  and  Governor-General  of  India. 
The  engraving  is  in  ridicule  of  his  complaint,  in  the  House  of  Lords, 
of  the  cruelties  exercised  by  the  Government  troops  on  the  Irish 
Rebels.  In  the  distance  is  seen  Moll  Coggin,  an  Irish  witch,  mounted 
on  a  black  Ram  with  a  blue  tail,  and  on  the  hill  an  Oak-boy,  carrying 
an  uprooted  oak,  on  the  branches  of  which  are  numerous  swans— in 
allusion  to  the  unfounded  nature  of  his  charges. 

THE  LOYAL  TOAST Page  94 

Representing  the  DUKE  OF  NORFOLK  giving  at  a  dinner  at  the  Crown 
and  Anchor  Tavern  in  honour  of  the  birth-day  of  Fox  his  famous  toast, 
"  Our  Sovereign's  Health — The  Majesty  of  the  People  ".  On  the  left  is 
JOHN  NICHOLLS,  Member  for  Tregony ;  next  to  him  is  the  DUKE  OF 
BEDFORD  ;  on  the  other  side  of  the  table  are  SHERIDAN  and  Fox. 

DESIGN  FOR  THE  NEW  GALLERY  OF  BUSTS  AND  PICTURES. 

Page  99 

The  statue  of  Fox  was  placed  between  those  of  Demosthenes  and 
Cicero,  by  the  KMPRESS  CATHERINE  OF  RUSSIA  as  a  compliment  to  him 
for  having  successfully  opposed  the  sending  of  the  armament  prepared 
by  PITT,  in  conjunction  with  Prussia  and  Holland,  to  compel  her  to 
give  up  Ockzakow  which  she  had  seized.  As  this  caricature,  in- 
cluding the  verses,  was  originally  published  in  March,  1793,  the  latter 
in  T/tc  Anti-Jacobin  must  have  been  suggested  by  them. 

THE  REPUBLICAN  RATTLESNAKE  FASCINATING  THE  BEDFORD 

SQUIRREL Page  285 

In  allusion  to  the  influence  exercised  by  Fox  over  FRANCIS,  fifth 
DUKE  OF  BEDFORD,  who  had  become  one  of  the  most  zealous  of  the 
popular  party. 


PKOSPECTUS 

OF 

THE    ANTI-JACOBIN; 

OR, 

WEEKLY  EXAMINER, 

The  FIRST  NUMBER  of  which  will  be  published  on  MONDAY, 
the  20th  of  NOVEMBER,  1797,  to  be  continued  every  Monday 
during  the  sitting  of  Parliament.  Price  6d. 

Possit  quid  vivida  virtus 

Experiuw,  licet :  nee  longe  scilicet  hostes 
Qucerendi. 

AT  a  moment,  when  whatever  may  be  the  habits  of 
inquiry  and  the  anxiety  for  information  upon  subjects 
of  public  concern  diffused  among  all  ranks  of  people,  the 
vehicles  of  intelligence  are  already  multiplied  in  a  pro- 
portion nearly  equal  to  this  encreased  demand,  and  to 
the  encreased  importance  and  variety  of  matter,  some 
apology  may  perhaps  be  necessary  for  the  obtrusion  of  a 
new  Paper  upon  the  World;  and  some  account  may 
reasonably  be  expected  of  the  views  and  principles  on 
which  it  founds  its  pretensions  to  notice,  before  it  can 
hope  to  make  its  way  through  the  crowd  of  competitors 
which  have  gotten  the  start  of  it  in  the  race  for  public 
favour. 

[As  this  Prospectu*  was  written  by  MR.  CANNING,  and  it  has  been  prefixed 
only  to  the  former  edition  of  the  Poetry  by  the  present  Editor,  it  is  again  con- 
sidered an  interesting  addition  to  the  present  one.] 

1 


2  PROSPECTUS    OF 

THE  grounds  upon  which  such  pretensions  have 
usually  been  rested  by  those  who  have  engaged  in 
undertakings  of  this  kind,  are  accuracy,  variety,  and 
priority  of  Intelligence,  connections  at  home,  corre- 
spondence abroad,  and,  above  all,  a  profession  of 
impartial  and  unprejudiced  attention  to  all  opinions, 
and  to  all  parties  and  descriptions  of  men. 

ON  none  of  these  Topicks  is  it  Our  intention  to  enlarge. 
OF  Our  means  of  information,  and  of  the  use  which 
We  make  of  them,  our  readers  will,  after  a  very  short 
trial,  be  enabled  to  form  their  own  opinion.  And  to 
that  trial  We  confidently  commit  ourselves  :  professing, 
however,  at  the  same  time,  that  if  the  only  advantage 
which  We  were  desirous  of  holding  out  to  our  Readers, 
were  that  of  having  it  in  our  power  to  apprize  them  an 
hour  or  a  day  sooner  than  those  Journals,  which  are 
already  in  their  hands,  of  any  event  however  important 
— We  should  bring  to  the  undertaking  much  less  anxiety 
for  success,  and  should  state  our  claims  on  public  atten- 
tion with  much  less  boldness,  than  We  are  disposed  to 
do  in  the  consciousness  of  higher  purposes,  and  more 
beneficial  views. 

NOVELTY  indeed  We  have  to  announce.  For  what  so 
new  in  the  present  state  of  the  daily  and  weekly  PBESS 
(We  speak  generally,  though  there  are  undoubtedly 
exceptions  which  we  may  have  occasion  to  point  out 
hereafter)  as  THE  TRUTH?  To  this  object  alone  it  is 
that  Our  labours  are  dedicated.  It  is  the  constant  vio- 
lation, the  disguise,  the  perversion  of  the  Truth,  whether 
in  narrative  or  in  argument,  that  will  form  the  principal 
subject  of  our  WEEKLY  EXAMINATION  :  and  it  is  by  a 
diligent  and  faithful  discharge  of  this  duty — by  detecting 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  6 

falsehood,  and  rectifying  error,  by  correcting  misrepresen- 
tation, and  exposing  and  chastising  malignity — that  We 
hope  to  deserve  the  reception  which  We  solicit,  and  to 
obtain  not  only  the  approbation  of  the  Country  to  our 
attempt,  but  its  thanks  for  the  motives  which  have  given 
birth  to  it. 

THESE  are  strong  words.  But  We  are  conscious  of 
intending  in  earnest  what  they  profess.  How  far  the 
execution  of  our  purpose  may  correspond  with  the  design, 
it  is  for  others  to  determine.  It  is  ours  to  state  that 
design  fairly,  and  in  the  spirit  in  which  we  conceive  it. 

OF  the  utility  of  such  a  purpose,  if  even  tolerably 
executed,  there  can  be  little  doubt,  among  those  persons 
(a  very  large  part  of  the  community)  who  must  have 
found  themselves,  during  the  course  of  the  last  few  years, 
perplexed  by  the  multiplicity  of  contradictory  accounts  of 
almost  every  material  event  that  has  occurred  in  that 
eventful  and  tremendous  period ;  and  who  must  anxiously 
have  wished  for  some  public  channel  of  information  on 
which  they  could  confidently  rely  for  forming  their 
opinion. 

BUT  before  We  can  expect  sufficient  credit  from  persons 
of  this  description,  to  enable  us  to  supply  such  a  defect, 
and  to  assume  an  office  so  important,  it  is  natural  that 
they  should  require  some  profession  of  our  principles  as 
well  as  of  our  purposes ;  in  order  that  they  may  judge 
not  only  of  our  ability  to  communicate  the  information 
which  We  promise,  but  of  our  intention  to  inform  them 
aright. 

To  that  freedom  from  partiality  and  prejudice,  of  which 
We  have  spoken  above,  by  the  profession  of  which  so 
many  of  our  Contemporaries  recommend  themselves,  We 


4:  PROSPECTUS  OF 

make  little  pretension — at  least  in  the  sense  in  which 
those  terms  appear  now  too  often  to  be  used. 

WE  have  not  arrived  (to  our  shame  perhaps  we  avow 
it)  at  that  wild  and  unshackled  freedom  of  thought, 
which  rejects  all  habit,  all  wisdom  of  former  times,  all 
restraints  of  ancient  usage,  and  of  local  attachment ; 
and  which  judges  upon  each  subject,  whether  of  politicks 
or  morals,  as  it  arises,  by  lights  entirely  its  own,  without 
reference  to  recognized  principle,  or  established  practice. 
WE  confess,  whatever  disgrace  may  attend  such  a  con- 
fession, that  We  have  not  so  far  gotten  the  better  of  the 
influence  of  long  habits  and  early  education,  not  so  far 
imbibed  that  spirit  of  liberal  indifference,  of  diffused  and 
comprehensive  philanthropy,  which  distinguishes  the 
candid  character  of  the  present  age,  but  that  We  have 
our  feelings,  our  preferences,  and  our  affections,  attach- 
ing on  particular  places,  manners,  and  institutions,  and 
even  on  particular  portions  of  the  human  race. 

IT  may  be  thought  a  narrow  and  illiberal  distinction — 
but  We  avow  ourselves  to  be  partial  to  the  COUNTRY  in 
which  we  live,  notwithstanding  the  daily  panegyricks 
which  we  read  and  hear  on  the  superior  virtues  and 
endowments  of  its  rival  and  hostile  neighbours.  We  are 
prejudiced  in  favour  of  her  Establishments,  civil  and 
religious ;  though  without  claiming  for  either  that  ideal 
perfection,  which  modern  philosophy  professes  to  discover 
in  the  other  more  luminous  systems  which  are  arising 
on  all  sides  of  us. 

THE  safety  and  prosperity  of  these  kingdoms,  however 
unimportant  they  may  seem  in  abstract  contemplation 
when  compared  with  the  more  extensive,  more  beautiful, 
and  more  productive  parts  of  the  world,  do  yet  excite  in 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  5 

our  minds  a  peculiar  interest  and  anxiety ;  and  will  pro- 
bably continue  to  occupy  a  share  of  our  attention  by  no 
means  justified  by  the  proportional  consequence  which 
speculative  reasoners  may  think  proper  to  assign  to  them 
in  the  scale  of  the  universe. 

We  should  be  averse  to  hazarding  the  smallest  part  of 
the  practical  happiness  of  this  Country;  though  the 
sacrifice  should  be  recommended  as  necessary  for  accom- 
plishing throughout  the  world  an  uniform  and  beautiful 
system  of  theoretical  liberty  :  and  We  should  at  all  times 
exert  our  best  endeavours  for  upholding  its  constitution, 
even  with  all  the  human  imperfections  which  may  belong 
to  it,  though  We  were  assured  that  on  its  ruins  might  be 
erected  the  only  pillar  that  is  yet  wanting  to  complete 
the  "most  glorious  fabric.k  which  the  Integrity  and  Wisdom 
of  man  have  raised  since  the  Creation  ". 

IF,  as  Philosopher  MONGE*  avers,  in  his  eloquent  and 
instructive  address  to  the  Directory,  "  The  Government 
of  England  and  the  French  RepiMick  cannot  exist  together" 
We  do  not  hesitate  in  our  choice ;  though  well  aware 
that  in  that  choice  we  may  be  much  liable,  in  the  opinion 
of  many  critics  of  the  present  day,  to  the  imputation  of  a 
want  of  candour  or  of  discernment. 

[*  A  very  eminent  Mathematician  and  Physicist,  and  the 
inventor  of  descriptive  geometry ;  born  in  1746.  In  1792  he 
was  appointed  Minister  of  Marine ;  and  afterwards  took  an 
active  part  in  the  equipment  of  the  Army.  After  founding  the 
£cole  Poly  technique,  he  was  sent  into  Italy  to  receive  the 
pictures  and  statues  seized  by  Buonaparte.  He  then  joined 
the  expedition  to  Egypt,  and  rendered  great  service  both  in  the 
war  operations  and  in  the  labours  of  the  Egyptian  Institute, 
the  results  of  which  were  published  by  command  of  Napoleon 
in  that  magnificent  and  extensive  work  the  Description  de 
I'tigypte.  He  died  in  1818.— ED.] 


6  PROSPECTUS   OP 

ADMIRERS  of  military  heroism,  and  dazzled  by  military 
success  in  common  with  other  men,  We  are  yet  even  here 
conscious  of  some  qualification  and  distinction  in  our 
feelings :  We  acknowledge  ourselves  apt  to  look  with 
more  complacency  on  bravery  and  skill,  when  displayed 
in  the  service  of  our  Country,  than  when  We  see  them 
directed  against  its  interests  or  its  safety ;  and,  however 
equal  the  claims  to  admiration  in  either  case  may  be,  We 
feel  our  hearts  grow  warmer  at  the  recital  of  what  has 
been  atchieved  by  HOWE,  by  JERVIS,  or  by  DUNCAN,  than 
at  the  "glorious  victory  of  Jemappe"  or  "  the  immortal 
battle  of  the  bridge  of  Lodi ". 

IN  MOEALS  We  are  equally  old-fashioned.  We  have 
not  yet  learned  the  modern  refinement  of  referring  in  all 
considerations  upon  human  conduct,  not  to  any  settled 
and  preconceived  principles  of  right  and  wrong,  not  to 
any  general  and  fundamental  rules  which  experience,  and 
wisdom,  and  justice,  and  the  common  consent  of  man- 
kind have  established,  but  to  the  internal  admonitions  of 
every  man's  judgment  or  conscience  in  his  own  particular 
instance. 

WE  do  not  dissemble, — that  We  reverence  LAW, — We 
acknowledge  USAGE, — We  look  even  upon  PBESCBIPTION 
without  hatred  or  horror.  And  we  do  not  think  these, 
or  any  of  them,  less  safe  guides  for  the  moral  actions  of 
men,  than  that  new  and  liberal  system  of  ETHICS,  whose 
operation  is  not  to  bind  but  to  loosen  the  bands  of  social 
order ;  whose  doctrine  is  formed  not  on  a  system  of  recip- 
rocal duties,  but  on  the  supposition  of  individual,  inde- 
pendent, and  unconnected  rights ;  which  teaches  that  all 
men  are  pretty  equally  honest,  but  that  some  have 
different  notions  of  honesty  from  others,  and  that  the 


THE   ANTI- JACOBIN.  7 

most  received  notions  are  for  the  greater  part  the  most 
faulty. 

WE  do  not  subscribe  to  the  opinion,  that  a  sincere  con- 
viction of  the  truth  of  no  matter  what  principle,  is  a  suffi- 
cient defence  for  no  matter  what  action;  and  that  the 
only  business  of  moral  enquiry  with  human  conduct  is  to 
ascertain  that  in  each  case  the  principle  and  the  action 
agree.  We  have  not  yet  persuaded  ourselves  to  think  it 
a  sound,  or  a  safe  doctrine,  that  every  man  who  can 
divest  himself  of  a  moral  sense  in  theory,  has  a  right  to 
be  with  impunity  and  without  disguise  a  scoundrel  in 
practice.  It  is  not  in  our  creed,  that  ATHEISM  is 
as  good  a  faith  as  CHRISTIANITY,  provided  it  be  pro- 
fessed with  equal  sincerity ;  nor  could  we  admit  it 
as  an  excuse  for  MURDER,  that  the  murderer  was  in 
his  own  mind  conscientiously  persuaded  that  the 
murdered  might  for  many  good  reasons  be  better  out 
of  the  way. 

OF  all  these  and  the  like  principles,  in  one  word,  of 
JACOBINISM  in  all  its  shapes,  and  in  all  its  degrees, 
political  and  moral,  public  and  private,  whether  as  it 
openly  threatens  the  subversion  of  States,  or  gradually 
saps  the  foundations  of  domestic  happiness,  We  are  the 
avowed,  determined,  and  irreconcileable  enemies.  We 
have  no  desire  to  divest  ourselves  of  these  inveterate 
prejudices ;  but  shall  remain  stubborn  and  incorrigible  in 
resisting  every  attempt  which  may  be  made  either  by 
argument  or  (what  is  more  in  the  charitable  spirit  of 
modern  reformers)  by  force,  to  convert  us  to  a  different 
opinion. 

IT  remains  only  to  speak  of  the  details  of  our  PLAN. 


8  PBOSPECTUS   OF 

IT  is  our  intention  to  publish  Weekly,  during  the  Ses- 
sion of  Parliament,  a  Paper,  containing, 

FIKST,  An  Abstract  of  the  important  events  of  the 
week,  both  at  home  and  abroad. 

SECONDLY,  Such  Eeflections  as  may  naturally  arise 
out  of  them  :  and, 

THIRDLY,  A  contradiction  and  confutation  of  the  false- 
hoods and  misrepresentations  concerning  these  events, 
their  causes,  and  their  consequences,  which  may  be  found 
in  the  Papers  devoted  to  the  cause  of  SEDITION  and 
IRRELIGION,  to  the  pay  or  principles  of  FRANCE. 

THIS  last,  as  it  is  by  far  the  most  important,  will  in  all 
probability  be  the  most  copious  of  the  three  heads ;  and 
is  that  to  which,  above  all  others,  We  wish  to  direct  the 
attention  of  our  Eeaders. 

WE  propose  diligently  to  collect,  as  far  as  the  range  of 
our  own  daily  reading  will  enable  us,  and  we  promise 
willingly  to  receive,  from  whatever  quarter  they  may 
come,  the  several  articles  of  this  kind  which  require  to 
be  thus  contradicted  or  confuted ;  which  will  naturally 
divide  themselves  into  different  classes,  according  to  their 
different  degrees  of  stupidity  or  malignity. 

THERE  are,  for  instance  (to  begin  with  those  of  the 
highest  order),  the  LIES  of  the  Week ;  the  downright, 
direct,  unblushing  falsehoods,  which  have  no  colour  or 
foundation  whatever,  and  which  must  at  the  very  moment 
of  their  being  written,  have  been  known  to  the  writer  to 
be  wholly  destitute  of  truth. 

NEXT  in  rank  come  MISREPRESENTATIONS  which, 
taking  for  their  ground-work  facts  in  substance  true,  do 
so  colour  and  distort  them  in  description,  as  to  take  away 
all  semblance  of  their  real  nature  and  character. 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN. 

LASTLY,  The  most  venial,  though  by  no  means  the  least 
mischievous  class,  are  MISTAKES  ;  under  which  descrip- 
tion are  included  all  those  Hints,  Conjectures,  and  Ap- 
prehensions, those  Anticipations  of  Sorrow  and  Depre- 
cations of  Calamity,  in  which  Writers  who  labour  under 
too  great  an  anxiety  for  the  Public  Welfare  are  apt  to 
indulge ;  and  which,  when  falsified  by  the  event,  they  are 
generally  too  much  occupied  to  find  leisure  to  retract  or 
disavow  : — A  trouble  which  We  shall  have  great  pleasure 
in  taking  off  these  Gentlemen's  hands. 

To  each  of  these  several  articles  We  shall  carefully 
affix  the  name  and  date  of  the  Publication  from  which 
We  may  take  the  liberty  of  borrowing  it. 

WITH  regard  to  the  PROCEEDINGS  IN  PARLIAMENT, 
We  shall  not  fail  to  mark  to  Our  Eeaders  the  progress  of 
the  public  business ;  though  it  does  not  enter  into  our 
Plan  to  give  a  regular  detail  of  the  Debates  :  nor  would 
the  limits  of  our  Paper  allow  of  it. 

WE  have  a  further  reason  for  not  occupying  this  pro- 
vince, which  will  equally  account  for  our  determination, 
not  to  receive  Advertisements — our  earnest  desire  not  to 
lessen  the  circulation  of  any  existing  Public  Print. 

IT  is  obvious  upon  every  ground  of  fairness  and  of 
policy,  that  We  must  entertain  this  desire  very  strongly 
with  regard  to  the  respectable  Papers  which  are  directed 
by  principles  and  attachments  like  our  own :  an  attach- 
ment (We  have  no  wish  to  disguise  it)  to  the  cause  of  a 
GOVERNMENT,  with  whose  support,  whose  popularity  and 
consequent  means  of  exertion,  the  circumstances  of  the 
present  times  have  essentially  connected  the  existence  of 
THIS  COUNTRY  as  an  independent  Nation. 


10  PKOSPECTUS   OF 

As  little  should  we  wish  to  circumscribe  the  sale  of 
those  JOURNALS,  upon  whose  errors  or  perverseness,  upon 
whose  false  statements  and  pernicious  doctrines  We 
reckon  for  the  main  support,  as  they  have  been  the 
principal  cause  of  our  undertaking.  These  We  would 
entreat  to  proceed  with  fresh  vigour  and  increased 
activity.  It  is  our  wish  to  be  seen  together,  and  to  be 
compared  with  them.  Every  week  of  misrepresentation 
will  be  followed  by  its  weekly  comment ;  and  with  this 
corrective  faithfully  administered,  the  longest  course  of 
MORNING  CHRONICLES  or  MORNING  POSTS,  of  STARS  or 
COURIERS,  may  become  not  only  innocent  but  beneficial. 

WITH  these  views  then  We  commence  our  undertaking. 
Whatever  may  be  the  success  or  the  merit  of  its  execution 
in  our  hands,  the  want  of  something  like  it  has  so  long  been 
felt  and  deplored  by  all  thinking  and  honest  men,  that 
We  cannot  doubt  of  the  approbation  and  encouragement 
with  which  the  attempt  will  be  received. 

WE  claim  the  support,  and  We  invite  the  assistance, 
of  ALL,  who  think  with  us  that  the  circumstances  and 
character  of  the  age  in  which  We  live  require  every  exer- 
tion of  every  man,  who  loves  his  COUNTRY  in  the  old  way, 
in  which  till  of  late  years  the  LOVE  of  one's  COUNTRY  was 
professed  by  most  men,  and  by  none  disclaimed  or 
reviled ;  of  ALL  who  think  that  the  PRESS  has  been  long 
enough  employed  principally  as  an  engine  of  destruction, 
and  who  wish  to  see  the  experiment  fairly  tried  whether 
that  engine,  by  which  many  of  the  States  which  surround 
us  have  been  overthrown,  and  others  shaken  to  their 
foundations,  may  not  be  turned  into  an  instrument  of 
defence  for  the  ONE  remaining  COUNTRY  which  has  ESTAB- 
LISHMENTS to  protect,  and  a  GOVERNMENT  with  the  spirit, 


THE   ANTI- JACOBIN.  11 

and  the  power,  and  the  wisdom  to  protect  them ;  of  ALL 
who  look  with  respect  to  public  honour,  and  with  attach- 
ment to  the  decencies  of  private  life ;  of  ALL  who  have  so 
little  deference  for  the  arrogant  intolerance  of  JACOBINISM 
as  still  to  contemplate  the  OFFICE  and  the  PERSON  of  a 
KING  with  veneration,  and  to  speak  reverently  of  KE- 
LIGION,  without  apologizing  for  the  singularity  of  their 
opinions ;  of  ALL  who  think  the  blessings  which  we  enjoy 
valuable,  and  who  think  them  in  danger ;  and  who,  while 
they  detest  and  despise  the  principles  and  the  professors 
of  that  NEW  FAITH  by  which  the  foundations  of  all  those 
blessings  are  threatened  to  be  undermined,  lament  the 
lukewarmness  with  which  its  propagation  has  hitherto 
been  resisted,  and  are  anxious,  while  there  is  yet  time, 
to  make  every  effort  in  the  cause  of  their  COUNTRY. 


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POETRY 


OF 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN. 


No.  I. 

INTRODUCTION. 

Nov.  20, 1797. 

IN  our  anxiety  to  provide  for  the  amusement  as  well  as 
information  of  our  readers,  we  have  not  omitted  to 
make  all  the  inquiries  in  our  power  for  ascertaining  the 
means  of  procuring  poetical  assistance.  And  it  would 
give  us  no  small  satisfaction  to  be  able  to  report  that  we 
had  succeeded  in  this  point  precisely  in  the  manner  which 
would  best  have  suited  our  own  taste  and  feelings,  as 
well  as  those  which  we  wish  to  cultivate  in  our  readers. 

But  whether  it  be  that  good  Morals,  and  what  we 
should  call  good  Politics,  are  inconsistent  with  the  spirit 
of  true  Poetry — whether  "the  Muses  still  with  freedom 
found"  have  an  aversion  to  regular  governments,  and 
require  a  frame  and  system  of  protection  less  complicated 
than  king,  lords,  and  commons : — 

"  Whether  primordial  nonsense  springs  to  life* 
In  the  wild  war  of  democratic,  strife," 

and  there  only — or  for  whatever  other  reason  it  may  be, 
whether  physical,  or  moral,  or  philosophical  (which  last 

[*  Parodied  from  Payne  Knight's  poem,   "  The  Progress  oj 
Civil  Society,"  which  is  admirably  ridiculed  in  No.  XV.  post. — ED.] 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  13 

is  understood  to  mean  something  more  than  the  other 
two,  though  exactly  what,  it  is  difficult  to  say),  we  have 
not  been  able  to  find  one  good  and  true  Poet,  of  sound 
principles  and  sober  practice,  upon  whom  we  could  rely 
for  furnishing  us  with  a  handsome  quantity  of  sufficient 
and  approved  verse — such  verse  as  our  readers  might  be 
expected  to  get  by  heart,  and  to  sing;  as  the  worthy 
philosopher  MONGE  describes  the  little  children  of  Sparta 
and  Athens  singing  the  songs  of  Freedom,  in  expectation 
of  the  corning  of  the  Great  Nation. 

In  this  difficulty  we  have  had  no  choice  but  either  to 
provide  no  poetry  at  all — a  shabby  expedient — or  to  go 
to  the  only  market  where  it  is  to  be  had  good  and  ready 
made,  that  of  the  Jacobins — an  expedient  full  of  danger, 
and  not  to  be  used  but  with  the  utmost  caution  and 
delicacy. 

To  this  latter  expedient,  however,  after  mature 
deliberation,  we  have  determined  to  have  recourse ; 
qualifying  it  at  the  same  time  with  such  precautions  as 
may  conduce  at  once  to  the  safety  of  our  readers' 
principles,  and  to  the  improvement  of  our  own  poetry. 

For  this  double  purpose,  we  shall  select  from  time  to 
time  from  among  those  effusions  of  the  Jacobin  Muse 
which  happen  to  fall  in  our  way,  such  pieces  as  may 
serve  to  illustrate  some  one  of  the  principles  on  which 
the  poetical  as  well  as  the  political  doctrine  of  the  NEW 
SCHOOL  is  established — prefacing  each  of  them,  for  our 
readers'  sake,  with  a  short  disquisition  on  the  particular 
tenet  intended  to  be  enforced  or  insinuated  in  the  produc- 
tion before  them — and  accompanying  it  with  an  humble 
effort  of  our  own,  in  imitation  of  the  poem  itself,  and  in 
further  illustration  of  its  principle. 


14  POETRY   OF 

By  these  means,  though  we  cannot  hope  to  catch  "  the 
wood-notes  wild "  of  the  Bards  of  Freedom,  we  may  yet 
acquire,  by  dint  of  repeating  after  them,  a  more  complete 
knowledge  of  the  secret  in  which  their  greatness  lies  than 
we  could  by  mere  prosaic  admiration  ;  and  if  we  cannot 
become  poets  ourselves,  we  at  least  shall  have  collected 
the  elements  of  a  Jacobin  Art  of  Poetry  for  the  use  of 
those  whose  genius  may  be  more  capable  of  turning  them 
to  advantage. 

It  might  not  be  unamusing  to  trace  the  springs  and 
principles  of  this  species  of  poetry,  which  are  to  be  found, 
some  in  the  exaggeration,  and  others  in  the  direct  inver- 
sion of  the  sentiments  and  passions  which  have  in  all 
ages  animated  the  breast  of  the  favourite  of  the  Muses, 
and  distinguished  him  from  the  "  vulgar  throng  ". 

The  poet  in  all  ages  has  despised  riches  and  grandeur. 

The  Jacobin  poet  improves  this  sentiment  into  a  hatred 
of  the  rich  and  the  great. 

The  poet  of  other  times  has  been  an  enthusiast  in  the 
love  of  his  native  soil. 

The  Jacobin  poet  rejects  all  restriction  in  his  feelings. 
His  love  is  enlarged  and  expanded  so  as  to  comprehend 
all  human  kind.  The  love  of  all  human  kind  is  without 
doubt  a  noble  passion :  it  can  hardly  be  necessary  to 
mention  that  its  operation  extends  to  freemen,  and  them 
only,  all  over  the  world. 

The  old  poet  was  a  warrior,  at  least  in  imagination ; 
and  sung  the  actions  of  the  heroes  of  his  country  in 
strains  which  "  made  Ambition  Virtue,"  and  which  over- 
whelmed the  horrors  of  war  in  its  glory. 

The  Jacobin  poet  would  have  110  objection  to  sing 
battles  too — but  he  would  take  a  distinction.  The 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  15 

prowess  of  Buonaparte,  indeed,  he  might  chant  in  his 
loftiest  strain  of  exultation.  There  we  should  find  no- 
thing but  trophies  and  triumphs  and  branches  of  laurel 
and  olive,  phalanxes  of  Eepublicans  shouting  victory, 
satellites  of  despotism  biting  the  ground,  and  geniuses  of 
Liberty  planting  standards  on  mountain-tops. 

But  let  his  own  country  triumph,  or  her  allies  obtain 
an  advantage  :  straightway  the  "  beauteous  face  of  war  " 
is  changed;  the  "pride,  pomp,  and  circumstance"  of 
victory  are  kept  carefully  out  of  sight,  and  we  are 
presented  with  nothing  but  contusions  and  amputations, 
plundered  peasants,  and  deserted  looms.  Our  poet 
points  the  thunder  of  his  blank  verse  at  the  head  of  the 
recruiting  Serjeant,  or  roars  in  dithyrambics  against  the 
lieutenants  of  pressgangs. 

But  it  would  be  endless  to  chase  the  coy  Muse  of 
Jacobinism  through  all  her  characters.  Mille  habet  oma- 
tus.  The  Mille  decenter  habet  is  perhaps  more  question- 
able. For  in  whatever  disguise  she  appears,  whether  of 
mirth  or  of  melancholy,  of  piety  or  of  tenderness ;  under 
all  disguises,  like  Sir  John  Brute  in  woman's  clothes,  she 
is  betrayed  by  her  drunken  swagger  and  ruffian  tone. 

In  the  poem  which  we  have  selected  for  the  edification 
of  our  readers  and  our  own  imitation  this  day,  the 
principles  which  are  meant  to  be  inculcated  speak  so 
plainly  for  themselves,  that  they  need  no  previous 
introduction. 


16  POETBY   OF 

INSCEIPTION* 

For    the    Apartment  in  Chepstow  Castle,  where  Henry  Marten,   the 
Regicide,  was  imprisoned  thirty  years. 

FOB  thirty  years  secluded  from  mankind 

Here  MARTEN  lingered.     Often  have  these  walls 

Echoed  his  footsteps,  as  with  even  tread 

He  paced  around  his  prison  :  not  to  him 

Did  Nature's  fair  varieties  exist ; 

He  never  saw  the  sun's  delightful  beams, 

Save  when  through  yon  high  bars  he  pour'd  a  sad 

And  broken  splendour.     Dost  thou  ask  his  crime  ? 

He  had  REBELL'D  AGAINST  THE  KING,  AND  SAT 

IN  JUDGMENT  ON  HIM  ;  for  his  ardent  mind 

Shaped  goodliest  plans  of  happiness  on  earth, 

And  peace  and  liberty.     Wild  dreams  !  but  such 

As  Plato  loved  ;  such  as  with  holy  zeal 

Our  Milton  worshipp'd.     Blessed  hopes  !  awhile 

From  man  withheld,  even  to  the  latter  days 

When  Christ  shall  come,  and  all  things  be  fulfill'd ! 


IMITATION. 
INSCEIPTION 

For  the  Door  of  the   Cell  in  Newgate,  where  Mrs.   Brownrigg,   the 
' Prcnticc-cidc,  was  confined  previous  to  her  Execution. 

FOB  one  long  term,  or  e'er  her  trial  came, 
Here  BROWNRIGG  linger'd.     Often  have  these  cells 
Echoed  her  blasphemies,  as  with  shrill  voice 
She  screamed  for  fresh  Geneva.     Not  to  her 
Did  the  blithe  fields  of  Tothill,  or  thy  street, 
[*  By  SOUTHEY.— Eo.] 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  17 

St.  Giles,  its  fair  varieties  expand ; 

Till  at  the  last,  in  slow-drawn  cart  she  went 

To  execution.     Dost  thou  ask  her  crime? 

SHE  WHIPP'D  TWO  FEMALE  'PRENTICES  TO  DEATH, 

AND  HID  THEM  IN  THE  COAL-HOLE.     For  her  mind 

Shaped  strictest  plans  of  discipline.     Sage  schemes ! 

Such  as  Lycurgus  taught,  when  at  the  shrine 

Of  the  Orthyan  goddess  he  bade  flog 

The  little  Spartans  ;  such  as  erst  chastised 

Our  Milton  when  at  college.     For  this  act 

Did  Brownrigg  swing.      Harsh  laws !      But  time   shall 

come 
When  France  shall  reign,  and  laws  be  all  repeal'd  ! 

[Mrs.  Elizabeth  Brownrigg  was  executed  at  Tyburn  on  Monday,  14th  Sept., 
1767,  for  murdering  one  of  her  apprentices,  Mary  Clifford.— ED.] 

[HENRY  MARTEN  was  one  of  the  most  interesting  and  remarkable  of  the 
Regicides,  not  only  from  his  abilities  and  consistent  honesty,  but  from  the 
elegance  of  his  manners,  his  wit,  and  the  fascinating  gaiety  of  his  conversation ; 
and,  moreover,  from  his  humane  disposition  and  generosity  to  fallen  foes. 
His  private  life,  however,  was  disgraced  by  the  most  reckless  debauchery, 
which  might  seem  more  appropriate  in  such  libertines  as  Rochester  and  Sedley 
than  in  a  coadjutor  of  the  strict  Puritan  party.  But  from  a  note  in  Grey's 
edition  of  Ihulibrax,  ft.  ii.,  ch.  i.,  p.  313,  it  would  appear  that  the  general 
opinion  at  that  time  was  that  profligacy  of  a  pronounced  character  was  indulged 
in  privately  by  more  than  a  few  of  that  sanctimonious  sect. 

He  was  the  son  of  Sir  Henry  Marten,  L.L.D.,  a  loyal  Judge  of  the 
Admiralty.  After  receiving  a  learned  education  at  Oxford,  he  entered  one  of 
the  Inns  of  Court,  and  travelled  in  France.  Having  a  stake  in  Berkshire— for  he 
inherited  a  property  of  £3000  a  year,  besides  several  thousand  pounds  in  money — 
he  was  elected,  1640,  one  of  the  members  for  the  county  in  the  last  two  Parlia- 
ments of  King  Charles  I.  His  chief  seat  was  at  Becket,  in  the  parish  of  Shriven- 
ham.  He  afterwards  obtained  a  grant  of  £1000  a  year  to  him  and  his  heirs  out 
of  the  forfeited  estates  of  the  Duke  of  Buckingham.  His  e_arly  marriage  with  a 
rich  widow,  selected  by  his  father,  but  not  affected  by  himself,  also  benefited 
his  finances. 

From  the  commencement  of  the  Civil  Wars  he  was  a  violent  Republican  ; 
and  as  early  as  1643  openly  expressed  his  opinion  of  the  desirability  of  the 
destruction  of  the  King  and  his  children,  for  which  rather  premature  advice 
he  was  expelled  the  House  of  Commons,  and  underwent  a  short  imprisonment 
in  the  Tower.  He  was  appointed  by  the  House  of  Commons  a  Colonel  of 
Horse  and  Governor  of  Reading,  but  made  less  mark  as  a  soldier  than  as  a 
rapacious  spoiler  of  the  adherents  of  the  King,  which  earned  him  the  oppro- 
brious nickname  of  "  Plunder-master  General". 

Being  empowered  to  dispose  of  the  Regalia  and  royal  trappings,  he  once 
investeuGEORGE  WITHER— who  had  been  made  one  of  Cromwell's  Major- 
Generals— with  them,  and  so  accoutred  induced  the  old  Poet  to  strut  up  and 
down  Westminster  Abbey  to  the  scandal  of  right-thinking  people. 

2 


18  POETRY   OF 

To  him  also  were  referred  the  alterations  in  the  public  arms,  the  Great 
Seal,  and  the  legends  upon  the  money.  Upon  the  latter  was  a  shield  bearing 
the  cross  of  St.  George,  encircled  by  a  palm  and  olive  branch,  and  inscribed 
The  Commonicealth  of  England,  and  on  the  reverse,  God  with  us,  W!t8 ;  which 
occasioned  the  remark  "that  God  and  the  Commonwealth  were  not  on  the 
same  side  ". 

Nothing  apparently  could  damp  the  ill-timed  jocosity  too  often  prevalent  in 
those  troublous  times,  for  at  MARTEN'S  trial,  16th  October,  1660,  Ewer,  who 
had  been  his  servant,  swore  that  "at  the  signing  of  the  warrant  for  the 
King's  execution  he  did  see  a  pen  in  Mr.  CROMWELL'S  hand,  and  he  marked 
Mr.  MARTEN  in  the  face  with  it,  and  Mr.  MARTEN  did  the  like  to  him  ".  But 
many  of  his  excesses  were  condoned  in  the  eyes  of  both  his  friends  and  enemies 
by  his  generous  and  humane  spirit. 

D'lSRAELl,  in  his  Commentaries  on  the  Lire  and  Reign  of  Charles  I.,  describes 
the  ingenious  way  in  which  MARTEN  saved  the  life  of  DAVID  JENKINS,  a  loyal 
and  obstinate  Welsh  judge,  who,  when  brought  to  the  bar  of  the  House  of 
Commons  to  answer  for  imprisoning  several  persons  for  bearing  arms  against 
the  King,  peremptorily  disowned  their  jurisdiction,  and  defied  them  in  the 
following  bold  terms  :  "  '  But,  Mr.  Speaker,  since  you  and  this  House  have 
renounced  your  allegiance  to  your  Sovereign,  and  are  become  a  den  of  thieves, 
should  I  bow  myself  in  this  House  of  Rimmon  the  Lord  would  not  pardon  me '. 
The  whole  House  were  electrified.  .  .  .  He  was  voted  guilty  of  high  treason 
without  any  trial.  The  day  of  execution  was  then  debated.  HARRY  MARTEN, 
who  had  not  yet  spoken,  rose,  not  to  dissent  from  the  vote  of  the  House,  he 
observed,  but  he  had  something  to  say  about  the  time  of  the  execution. 
'  Mr.  Speaker,'  said  he,  '  everyone  must  believe  that  this  old  gentleman  here 
is  fully  possessed  in  his  head  resolved  to  die  a  martyr  in  his  cause,  for  other- 
wise he  would  never  have  provoked  the  House  by  such  biting  expressions.  If 
you  execute  him,  you  do  precisely  that  which  he  hopes  for,  and  nis  execution 
will  have  a  great  influence  over  the  people,  since  he  is  condemned  without  a 
jury.  I  therefore  move  that  we  should  suspend  the  day  of  execution,  and  in 
meantime  force  him  to  live  in  spite  of  his  teeth.'  The  drollery  of  the  motion 
put  the  House  into  better  humour,  and  he  was  reprieved.  After  being  kept  in 
various  prisons  for  eleven  years,  he  was  released  by  Cromwell,  and  died  in  1663, 
aged  eighty-one." 

Another  instance  may  be  given  of  MARTEN'S  felicitous  humour  and  humane 
temper.  When  the  Commons  had  rid  themselves  of  the  Sovereign,  they  voted 
the  Lords  to  be  dangerous  and  useless.  But  MARTEN  proposed  an  amendment  in 
their  favour  ;  namely,  that  they  were  useless,  but  not  dangerous. 

His  speeches  in  the  House  were  represented  to  have  been  not  long,  "but 
wondrous  poynant,  pertinent,  and  witty.  He  was  exceedingly  apt  in  apt 
instances  ;  he  alone  hath  sometimes  turned  the  whole  House." 

He  wrote  several  tracts  on  parliamentary  subjects,  and  Verses  on  the  Death 
of  his  Nephew,  Charles  Edmoinds,  7th  July,  1661,  a?t.  30.  But  the  most  amusing  of 
the  publications  bearing  his  name  is  one  entitled  familiar  Letters  to  his  Lady  of 
Delight  :  also  her  kinde  Returnes  :  with  his  Rivall  K,  Pettingall's  Heroicall  Epistles. 
Printed  by  Edmundus  de  Speciosii  Villa,  [i.e.,  EDMUND  GAYTON].  Bellositi 
Dobunorum  [Oxford],  1662  and  1663, 4to.  Anptheredition,  with  additions,  appeared 
in  1685.  "  These  epistles,"  says  D'Israeli,  "  paint  to  the  life  the  loose  habits 
and  esptiglerics  of  this  witty  profligate  ;  and  I  think  they  have  been  referred  to 
by  some  inconsiderate  writers  as  a  genuine  correspondence."  They  were  pro- 
bably altogether  concocted  by  GAYTON.  He  was  severely  attacked  in  various 
scurrilous  lain poons,  some  of  which  are  printed  among  the  Rump  Songs,  1662. 

On  his  trial  he  was  found  guilty  and  sentenced  to  death  ;  but  the  good 
feeling  created  among  many  who  had  in  his  prosperous  days  enjoyed  his 
society  and  hospitality,  and  even  among  many  of  his  former  opponents  by  his 
generous  treatment  of  them  when  in  danger,  stood  him  in  good  stead,  and  it 
was  by  a  well-timed  and  humorous  appeal  to  the  Judges— such  as  he  himself 
might  have  used— that  his  life  was  saved.  Henry,  fourth  Viscount  FALKLAND, 
whose  virtuous  and  heroic  father  fell  at  the  first  Battle  of  Newbury  while 
fighting  for  the  King,  said  to  the  Judges  :  "  Gentlemen,  ye  talk  here  of  making 
a  sacrifice  :  it  was  old  law  that  all  sacrifices  were  to  be  without  spot  or  blemish  ; 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  19 


and  now  you  are  going  to  make  an  old  rotten  rascal  a  sacrifice  ".  This  piece  of 
wit  pleased  his  Judges,  and  his  sentence  was  commuted  to  imprisonment  for 
life.  He  was  confined  in  Chepstow  Castle,  Monmouthshire,  for  twenty  years, 
and  died  in  September,  1680,  aged  seventy-eight. 

He  must  have  felt  some  contrition  for  his  vicious  life,  for  some  time  before 
his  death  he  made  this  epitaph,  by  way  of  acrostic,  on  himself  : 

H  ere,  or  elsewhere  (all's  one  to  you,  to  me), 
K  arth,  air,  or  water  gripes  my  ghostly  dust, 
N  one  knowing  when  brave  fire  shall  set  it  free. 
R  eader,  if  you  an  oft  tryed  rule  will  trust, 
Y  ou'll  gladly  do  and  suffer  what  you  must. 

M  y  life  was  worn  with  serving  you  and  you, 

A  nd  now  death's  my  pay,  it  seems,  and  welcome  too. 

R  evenge  destroying  but  itself,  while  I 

T  o  birds  of  prey  leave  my  old  cage,  and  fly. 

K  xamples  preach  to  the  eye,  care  (then  mine  says) 

X  ot  how  you  end,  but  how  you  spend  your  days. 

"  In  Cromwell's  time  CHEPSTOW  CASTLE  served  as  a  place  of  imprisonment 
for  Jeremy  Taylor ;  and,  after  the  Restoration,  it  received  a  less  illustrious 
occupant  in  the  person  of  HARRY  MARTEN,  the  Regicide,  whose  imprisonment 
here  has  attracted  more  than  its  share  of  notice  in  consequence  of  the  foolish 
lines  written  by  SOUTHEY  in  his  days  of  republicanism  and  pantisocracy,  but 
which  are  as  untrue  in  fact  as  they  are  mischievous  in  sentiment.  As  to  the /act, 
it  is  notorious  that  MARTEN— at  all  events  after  the  first  few  years  of  his 
imprisonment — was  little  more  than  a  prisoner  on  parole  ;  allowed  to  visit  the 
neighbouring  gentry,  and  occupying  at  Chepstow  Castle,  with  his  family  and 
servants,  spacious  and  comfortable  apartments  in  the  tower  which  still  bears 
his  name.  As  to  the  sentiment,  the  lines  received  their  best  antidote  in  the 
clever  parody  of  Canning  and  Frere  in  The  Anti-Jacobin." — Annals  of  Chepstow 
Castlf,  by  J.  F.  Marsh,  1883  ;  4to. 


20  POETRY    OF 


No.  II. 

Nov.  27,  1797. 

IN  the  specimen  of  JACOBIN  POETRY  which  we  gave  in 
our  last  number  was  developed  a  principle,  perhaps  one 
of  the  most  universally  recognised  in  the  Jacobin  creed ; 
namely,  "  that  the  animadversion  of  Imman  law  upon 
human  actions  is  for  the  most  part  nothing  but  gross 
oppression  ;  and  that,  in  all  cases  of  the  administration  of 
criminal  justice,  the  truly  benevolent  mind  will  consider 
only  the  severity  of  the  punishment,  without  any  reference 
to  the  malignity  of  the  crime  ".  This  principle  has  of  late 
years  been  laboured  with  extraordinary  industry,  and 
brought  forward  in  a  variety  of  shapes,  for  the  edification 
of  the  public.  It  has  been  inculcated  in  bulky  quartos, 
and  illustrated  in  popular  novels.  It  remained  only  to 
fit  it  with  a  poetical  dress,  which  had  been  attempted  in 
the  INSCRIPTION  for  CHEPSTOW  CASTLE,  and  which  (we 
flatter  ourselves)  was  accomplished  in  that  for  MRS. 
BROWNRIGG'S  CELL. 

Another  principle,  no  less  devoutly  entertained,  and  no 
less  sedulously  disseminated,  is  the  natural  and  eternal 
warfare  of  the  POOR  and  the  RICH.  In  those  orders  and 
gradations  of  society,  which  are  the  natural  result  of  the 
original  difference  of  talents  and  of  industry  among  man- 
kind, the  Jacobin  sees  nothing  but  a  graduated  scale  of 
violence  and  cruelty.  He  considers  every  rich  man  as 
an  oppressor,  and  every  person  in  a  lower  situation  as 
the  victim  of  avarice,  and  the  slave  of  aristocratical 
insolence  and  contempt.  These  truths  he  declares 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  21 

loudly,  not  to  excite  compassion,  or  to  soften  the  con- 
sciousness of  superiority  in  the  higher,  but  for  the  pur- 
pose of  aggravating  discontent  in  the  inferior  orders. 

A  human  being,  in  the  lowest  state  of  penury  and  dis- 
tress, is  a  treasure  to  the  reasoner  of  this  cast.  He  con- 
templates, he  examines,  he  turns  him  in  every  possible 
light,  with  a  view  of  extracting  from  the  variety  of  his 
wretchedness  new  topics  of  invective  against  the  pride  of 
property.  He,  indeed  (if  he  is  a  true  Jacobin),  refrains 
from  relieving  the  object  of  his  compassionate  contempla- 
tion ;  as  well  knowing  that  every  diminution  from  the 
general  mass  of  human  misery  must  proportionably 
diminish  the  force  of  his  argument. 

This  principle  is  treated  at  large  by  many  authors.  It 
is  versified  in  sonnets  and  elegies  without  end.  We 
trace  it  particularly  in  a  poem  by  the  same  author 
[SOUTHEY]  from  whom  we  borrowed  our  former  illustra- 
tion of  the  Jacobin  doctrine  of  crimes  and  punishments. 
In  this  poem,  the  pathos  of  the  matter  is  not  a  little 
relieved  by  the  absurdity  of  the  metre.  We  shall  not 
think  it  necessary  to  transcribe  the  whole  of  it,  as  our 
imitation  does  not  pretend  to  be  so  literal  as  in  the  last 
instance,  but  merely  aspires  to  convey  some  idea  of  the 
manner  and  sentiment  of  the  original.  One  stanza,  how- 
ever, we  must  give,  lest  we  should  be  suspected  of  paint- 
ing from  fancy,  and  not  from  life. 

The  learned  reader  will  perceive  that  the  metre  is 
SAPPHIC,  and  affords  a  fine  opportunity  for  his  scanning 
and  proving,  if  he  has  not  forgotten  them. 

Cold  was  the  night  wind ;  drifting  fast  the  snows  fell ; 
Wile  we're  the  downs,  and  shelterless  and  naked : 


22  POETRY    OF 

When  a  poor  wand'rer  struggled  on  her  journey, 
Weary  and  way-sdre.* 

[*  The  original  poem,  by  Southey,  is  here  subjoined  : — 
THE  WIDOW. 

SAPPHICS. 

Cold  was  the  night  wind ;  drifting  fast  the  snows  fell ; 
Wide  were  the  downs,  and  shelterless  and  naked; 
When  a  poor  wand'rer  struggled  on  her  journey, 
Weary  and  way-sore. 

Drear  were  the  downs,  more  dreary  her  reflections  ; 
Cold  was  the  night  wind,  colder  was  her  bosom : 
She  had  no  home,  the  world  was  all  before  her, 
She  had  no  shelter. 

Fast  o'er  the  heath  a  chariot  rattled  by  her : 
"  Pity  me  ! "  feebly  cried  the  poor  night  wanderer. 
"  Pity  me,  strangers !   lest  with  cold  and  hunger 
Here  I  should  perish. 

"  Once  I  had  friends — but  they  have  all  forsook  nie  ! 
Once  I  had  parents — they  are  now  in  heaven ! 
I  had  a  home  once — I  had  once  a  husband — 
Pity  me,  strangers ! 

"  I  had  a  home  once — I  had  once  a  husband — 
I  am  a  widow,  poor  and  broken-hearted !  " 
Loud  blew  the  wind,  unheard  was  her  complaining ; 
On  drove  the  chariot. 

Then  on  the  snow  she  laid  her  down  to  rest  her; 
She  heard  a  horseman  :   "  Pity  me  !  "  she  groaned  out. 
Loud  was  the  wind,  unheard  was  her  complaining ; 
On  went  the  horseman. 

Worn  out  with  anguish,  toil,  and  cold  and  hunger, 
Down  sunk  the  wanderer ;  sleep  had  seized  her  senses 
There  did  the  traveller  find  her  in  the  morning — 

God  had  released  her.] 
1796. 


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THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  23 

This  is  enough ;  unless  the  reader  should  wish  to  be 
informed  how 

Fast  o'er  the  bleak  heath  rattling  drove  a  chariot ; 
Or  how,  not  long  after, 

Loud  blew  the  wind,  unheard  was  her  complaining — 

On  went  the  horseman. 

We  proceed  to  give  our  IMITATION,  which  is  of  the 
Amcebcean  or  Collocutor//  kind. 

SAPPHICS. 
THE  FRIEND  OF  HUMANITY  AND  THE  KNIFE-GRINDER. 

FRIEND  OF  HUMANITY.* 

"  NEEDY  Knife-grinder  !    whither  are  you  going? 
Bough  is  the  road,  your  wheel  is  out  of  order — 
Bleak  blows  the  blast ;   your  hat  has  got  a  hole  in't, 

So  have  your  breeches  ! 

"Weary  Knife-grinder  !  little  think  the  proud  ones, 
Who  in  their  coaches  roll  along  the  turnpike- 
-road,  what  hard  work  'tis  crying  all  day  "  Knives  and 

Scissars  to  grind  O  !  " 

"  Tell  me,  Knife-grinder,  how  you  came  to  grind  knives  ? 
Did  some  rich  man  tyrannically  use  you  ? 

[*  GEORGE  TIERNEY,  M.P.  for  Southwark,  who  in  early  times 
was  among  the  more  forward  of  the  Reformers.  "  He  was," 
says  Lord  Brougham,  "  an  assiduous  member  of  the  Society  of 
Frieiids  of  the  People,  and  drew  up  the  much  and  justly  celebrated 
Petition  in  which  that  useful  body  laid  before  the  House  of 
Commons  all  the  more  striking  particulars  of  its  defective  title 
to  the  office  of  representing  the  people,  which  that  House  then, 
as  now,  but  with  far  less  reason,  assumed."  Notwithstanding 
the  above  severe  verses,  Tierney  served  under  Canning  as 
Master  of  the  Mint,  during  the  latter's  short  administration  in 
1827.— ED.] 


24  POETRY    OF 

Was  it  the  squire  ?   or  parson  of  the  parish  ? 

Or  the  attorney  ? 

"  Was  it  the  squire,  for  killing  of  his  game  ?  or 
Covetous  parson,  for  his  tithes  distraining  ? 
Or  roguish  lawyer,  made  you  lose  your  little 

All  in  a  lawsuit  ? 

"  (Have  you  not  read  the  Eights  of  Man,  by  Tom  Paine?) 
Drops  of  compassion  tremble  on  my  eyelids, 
Ready  to  fall,  as  soon  as  you  have  told  your 

Pitiful  story." 

KNIFE-  GRINDER. 

"  Story !   God  bless  you  !   I  have  none  to  tell,  sir, 
Only  last  night  a-drinking  at  the  Chequers, 
This  poor  old  hat  and  breeches,  as  you  see,  were 

Torn  in  a  scuffle. 

"  Constables  came  up  for  to  take  me  into 
Custody ;    they  took  me  before  the  justice  ; 
Justice  Oldmixon  put  me  in  the  parish- 

-  Stocks  for  a  vagrant. 

"  I  should  be  glad  to  drink  your  Honour's  health  in 
A  pot  of  beer,  if  you  will  give  me  sixpence  ; 
But  for  my  part,  I  never  love  to  meddle 

With  politics,  sir." 
FRIEND  OF  HUMANITY. 

"  /  give  thee  sixpence  !   I  will  see  thee  damned  first — 
Wretch !  whom  no  sense  of  wrongs  can  rouse  to  ven- 
geance— 
Sordid,  unfeeling,  reprobate,  degraded, 

Spiritless  outcast ! " 

[Kicks  the  Knife-grinder,  overturns  his  wheel,  and  exit  in  a  transport 
of  Republican  enthusiasm  and  universal  philanthropy.'] 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  25 


No.  III. 

Nov.  30,  1797. 

WE  have  received  the  following  -  from  a  loyal  corre- 
spondent, and  we  shall  be  very  happy  at  any  time  to  be 
relieved,  by  communications  of  a  similar  tendency,  from 
the  drudgery  of  Jacobinical  imitations. 


THE  INVASION;* 

OB,    THE    BRITISH    WAR    SONG. 

To  the  Tune  of  "  Whilst  happy  in  my  native  land  ". 

I. 
WHILST  happy  in  our  native  land, 

So  great,  so  famed  in  story, 
Let's  join,  my  friends,  with  heart  and  hand 

To  raise  our  country's  glory  : 
When  Britain  calls,  her  valiant  sons 

Will  rush  in  crowds  to  aid  her — 
Snatch,  snatch  your  muskets,  prime  your  guns, 
And  ci'ush  the  fierce  invader ! 

Whilst  every  Briton's  song  shall  be, 
"  0  give  us  Death — or  Victory ! " 

[*  In  Feb.,  1797,  about  1400  Frenchmen  landed  at  Pembroke, 
but  surrendered  without  resistance  to  the  country  people,  whom 
Lord  CAWDOR  (who  had  been  elevated  to  the  Peerage  in  the 
preceding  year)  had  armed  with  scythes  and  pitchforks.  He 
was  sxicceeded  by  his  elder  son,  who  was  created  Earl  Cawdor 
in  1827,  and  died  I860.— ED.] 


26  POETKY   OF 

II. 

Long  had  this  favour'd  isle  enjoy'd 

True  comforts,  past  expressing, 
When  France  her  hellish  arts  employ'd 

To  rob  us  of  each  blessing  : 
These  from  our  hearths  by  force  to  tear 

(Which  long  we've  learned  to  cherish) 
Our  frantic  foes  shall  vainly  dare ; 

We'll  keep  'em  or  we'll  perish — 
And  every  day  our  song  shall  be, 
' '  0  give  us  Death — or  Victory  ! ' ' 

IIL 

Let  France  in  savage  accents  sing 

Her  bloody  Eevolution ; 
We  prize  our  country,  love  our  king, 

Adore  our  constitution ; 
For  these  we'll  every  danger  face, 

And  quit  our  rustic  labours ; 
Our  ploughs  to  firelocks  shall  give  place ; 

Our  scythes  be  changed  to  sabres ; 
And  clad  in  arms,  our  song  shall  be, 
"  0  give  us  Death — or  Victory  !  " 

IV. 

Soon  shall  the  proud  invaders  learn, 
When  bent  on  blood  and  plunder, 

That  British  bosoms  nobly  burn 
To  brave  their  cannon's  thunder  : 

Low  lie  those  heads,  whose  wily  arts 
Have  plann'd  the  world's  undoing ! 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  27 

Our  vengeful  blades  shall  reach  those  hearts 
Which  seek  our  country's  ruin ; 

And  night  and  morn  our  song  shall  be, 
"  0  give  us  Death— or  Victory ! " 

v. 

When,  with  French  blood  our  fields  manured, 

The  glorious  struggle's  ended, 
We'll  sing  the  dangers  we've  endured, 

The  blessings  we've  defended : 
O'er  the  full  bowl  our  feats  we'll  tell, 

Each  gallant  deed  reciting ; 
And  weep  o'er  those  who  nobly  fell 

Their  country's  battle  fighting — 
And  ever  thence  our  song  shall  be, 
"  'Tis  VALOUJR  leads  to  VICTORY  ". 


[The  following  Song  which  furnished  the  hints  for  the  one 
above  was  written  by  MILES  PETER  ANDREWS,  M.P.  for 
Bewdley,  and  a  dealer  in  gunpowder ;  but  his  Plays,  Prologues, 
Verses,  &c.,  by  no  means  resemble  so  active  a  composition. 
He,  with  other  members  of  the  "Delia  Crusca,"  was  savagely 
attacked  and  extinguished  by  W.  Gifford  in  "  The  Baviad ". 
His  song  was  set  to  music  by  Sir  HENRY  BISHOP.  He  died  in 
1814. 

i. 

Whilst  happy  in  my  native  land 
I  boast  my  country's  charter, 
111  never  basely  lend  my  hand 

Her  liberties  to  barter. 
The  noble  mind  is  not  at  all 

By  poverty  degraded ; 
'Tis  guilt  alone  can  make  us  fall, 
And  well  am  I  persuaded, 

Each  free-born  Briton's  song  should  be, 
"  Oh  1    give  me  Death  or  Liberty  1 " 


28  POETRY    OF 


II. 

Though  small  the  pow'r  which  Fortune  grants, 

And  few  the  gifts  she  sends  us, 
The  lordly  hireling  often  wants 

That  freedom  which  defends  us. 
By  law  secur'd  from  lawless  strife, 

Our  house  is  our  castellum; 
Thus,  blessed  with  all  that's  dear  in  life, 
For  lucre  shall  we  sell  'em  ? 

No, — ev'ry  Briton's  song  should  be, 
"Oh!    give  me  Death  or  Liberty!" 

ED.] 


THE  ANTI-JACOBIN.  29 


No.  IV. 

Dec.  4,  1797. 

WE  have  been  favoured  with  the  following  specimen 
of  Jacobin  Poetry,  which  we  give  to  the  world  without 
any  comment  or  imitation.  We  are  informed  (we  know 
not  how  truly)  that  it  will  be  sung  at  the  meeting  of  the 
Friends  of  Freedom  ;  an  account  of  which  is  anticipated 
in  our  present  paper.* 

LA   SAINTE   GUILLOTINE. 


ATTEMPTED  FROM  THE  FRENCH. 

Tune  —  "  O'er  the  vine-covered  hills  and  gay  regions  of  France  ". 

I. 

FROM  the  blood-bedew'd  valleys  and  mountains  of  France, 
See  the  Genius  of  Gallic  INVASION  advance  ! 
Old  ocean  shall  waft  her,  unruffled  by  storm, 
While  our  shores  are  all  lined  with  the  "Friends  of  Re- 

form ".f 

Confiscation  and  Murder  attend  in  her  train, 
With  meek-eyed  Sedition,  the  daughter  of  PAINE  ;  J 
While  her  sportive   Poissardes  with   light  footsteps  are 

seen 
To  dance  in  a  ring  round  the  gay  Guillotine.  § 

[*  This  account  will  be  found  on  p.  32,  et  seq.  —  ED.] 

f  See  proclamation  of  the  Directory. 

|  The  "  too  long  calumniated  author  of  the  Rights  of  Man  ".  — 
See  a  Sir  Something  Burdett's  speech  at  the  Shakspeare,  as 
referred  to  in  the  Courier  of  Nov.  30. 

§The  Guillotine  at  Arras  was,  as  is  well  known  to  every 
Jacobin,  painted  "  Couleur  de  Rose  ". 


30  POETRY    OP 

II. 

To  London,  "  the  rich,  the  defenceless"*  she  comes — 
Hark  !  my  boys,  to  the  sound  of  the  Jacobin  drums ! 
See  Corruption,  Prescription,  and  Privilege  fly, 
Pierced  through  by  the  glance  of  her  blood-darting  eye. 
While  patriots,  from  prison  and  prejudice  freed, 
In  soft  accents  shall  lisp  the  Eepublican  creed, 
And  with  tri-colour'd  fillets,  and  cravats  of  green, 
Shall  crowd  round  the  altar  of  Saint  Guillotine. 

in. 

See  the  level  of  Freedom  sweeps  over  the  land — 
The  vile  Aristocracy's  doom  is  at  hand ! 
Not  a  seat  shall  be  left  in  a  House  that  we  know, 
But  for  Earl  BUONAPARTE  and  Baron  MOREAU. 
But  the  rights  of  the  Commons  shall  still  be  respected, 
Buonaparte  himself  shall  approve  the  elected ; 
And  the  Speaker  shall  march  with  majestical  mien, 
And  make  his  three  bows  to  the  grave  Guillotine. 

IV. 

Two  heads,  says  the  proverb,  are  better  than  one, 
But  the  Jacobin  choice  is  for  Five  Heads  or  none. 
By  Directories  only  can  Liberty  thrive ; 
Then  down  with  the  ONE,  Boys  !  and  up  with  the  FIVE  ! 
How  our  bishops  and  judges  will  stare  with  amazement, 
When  their  heads  are  thrust  out  at  the  National  Casement  /f 
When  the  National  Razor  f  has  shaved  them  quite  clean, 
What  a  handsome  oblation  to  Saint  Guillotine  ! 

*  See  Weekly  Examiner,  No.  11.     Extract  from  the  Courier. 

f  La  petite  Fenetre,  and  la  Razoire  Nationals,  fondling  expres- 
sions applied  to  the  Guillotine  by  the  Jacobins  in  France,  and 
their  pnpils  here. 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  31 

[The  following  Una  were  written  by  an  ardent  reformer,  W.  ROSCOE,  the 
accomplished  author  of  the  "  Life  of  Leo  X.,"  and  other  works,  to  commemorate 
the  taking  of  the  Bastille  (14th  July,  1789),  and  the  publication  by  the  National 
Assembly  (on  20th  August  following)  of  the  famous  "  Declaration  of  Rights  "— 
a  manifesto  which  became  the  creed  of  the  Revolution,  and  which  promulgated, 
as  the  basis  of  social  government,  the  specious  but  impracticable  doctrines  of 
/<''«  i-ty,  equality,  and  the  sovtreignty  of  the  ptofile  exercised  by  universal  suffrage. 
How  the  hopes  and  anticipations  of  moderate  reformers,  as  embodied  in  these 
lines,  were  falsified  by  the  spoliations  and  massacres  which  rapidly  followed 
are  but  too  well  known. 

When,  therefore,  the  Anti-Jacobin  was  established  to  combat  the  principles 
of  the  Revolution,  these  Lines  were,  for  party  purposes,  maliciously  referred  to, 
and  significantly  recommended  to  be  "recited  on  the  anniversary  of  the  14th 
August ".  To  make  this  allusion  more  clear,  it  must  be  remembered  that  on  the 
10th  August,  1792,  after  frightful  massacres,  the  Hotel  de  Ville  was  seized  and 
the  Tuileries  stormed.  On  the  13th  the  king  and  family  were  imprisoned  in  the 
Temple.  His  deposition,  the  dismissal  of  the  Ministers,  and  the  formation  of  a 
National  Convention,  on  more  popular  principles  than  the  Legislative  Assembly, 
were  decreed  by  the  victors.  On  the  14th  Le  Brun  became  Minister  for  Foreign 
Affairs,  Danton  for  Justice,  and  Monge  for  Marine  ;  while  the  Girondist  Minis- 
ters, Roland,  Servan,  and  Claviere,  resumed  their  former  functions  as  Ministers 
of  the  Interior,  War,  and  Finance  respectively. 

The  Song,  La  Sainte  Guillotine,  was  evidently  written  as  a  Contrast,  and 
not  as  a  Parody — a  few  lines  at  the  beginning  only  excepted,  which  serve  as  an 
introduction  to  verses  on  another  promised  phase  of  the  Revolution,  the  in- 
vasion of  England.— ED.] 


LINES. 

Written  for  the  purpose  of  being  recited  on  the  Anniversary  of 
the  14th  of  August.     By  WILLIAM  KOSCOE,  Esq. 

O'er  the  vine-covered  hills  and  gay  regions  of  France, 

See  the  day-star  of  liberty  rise  ; 
Through  the  clouds  of  detraction  unsullied  advance, 

And  hold  its  new  course  through  the  skies ! 
An  effulgence  so  mild,  with  a  lustre  so  bright, 

All  Europe  with  wonder  surveys ; 
And,  from  deserts  of  darkness  and  dungeons  of  night, 

Contends  for  a  share  of  the  blaze. 

Ah  !  who  'midst  the  horrors  of  night  would  abide, 

That  can  breathe  the  pure  breezes  of  morn  ? 
Or  who,  that  has  drunk  the  pure  crystalline  tide, 

To  the  feculent  flood  would  return  ? 
When  the  bosom  of  Beauty  the  throbbing  heart  meets, 

Ah,  who  can  the  transport  decline  ? 
Or  who,  that  has  tasted  of  Liberty's  sweets, 

The  prize  but  with  life  would  resign  ? 


32  POETKY   OF 

Let  Burke  like  a  bat  from  its  splendour  retire, 

A  splendour  too  strong  for  his  eyes ; 
Let  pedants  and  fools  his  effusions  admire, 

Entrapt  in  his  cobwebs  like  flies. 
Shall  insolent  Sophistry  hope  to  prevail 

Where  Keason  opposes  her  weight, 
When  the  welfare  of  millions  is  hung  in  the  scale, 

And  the  balance  yet  trembles  with  fate  ? 

But  'tis  over — high  Heaven  the  decision  approves, 

Oppression  has  struggled  in  vain, 
To  the  hell  she  has  form'd  Superstition  removes, 

And  Tyranny  bites  his  own  chain. 
In  the  records  of  Time  a  new  era  unfolds, 

AH  nature  exults  in  its  birth; 
His  creation  benign  the  Creator  beholds, 

And  gives  a  new  charter  to  earth. 

Oh !  catch  the  high  import,  ye  winds,  as  ye  blow  ; 

Oh !  hear  it,  ye  waves,  as  ye  roll, 
From  regions  that  feel  the  sun's  vertical  glow, 

To  the  farthest  extremes  of  the  Pole. 
Equal  rights,  equal  laws,  to  the  nations  around, 

Peace  and  friendship  its  precepts  impart, 
And  wherever  the  footsteps  of  man  shall  be  found, 

He  shall  bind  the  decree  on  his  heart. 

[The  Account  of  what  was  "  anticipated  to  take  place  at  the  Meeting  of  the 
Friends  of  Freedom — alluded  to  on  page  29 — duly  appeared  in  The  Anti-Jacobin, 
but  has  never  hitherto  formed  a  part  of  the  collection  of  its  Poetry.  As 
it  is  marked  by  much  ability,  and  has  been  often  quoted,  it  appears  to  the 
editor  desirable  to  introduce  some  portion  of  it  into  the  present  edition  of  the 
Poetry. 

MEETING  OF  THE   FRIENDS   OF  FREEDOM. 

The  House  of  Russell  being  given,  LORD  JOHN  and  LORD  WILLIAM  both  rose 
at  once. 

LORD  JOHN  made  a  very  neat,  and  LORD  WLLIIAM  a  very  appropriate  speech. 

ALDEKMAN  COOMBE  made  a  very  impressive  speech. 

MR.  TIERNEY  made  a  very  pointed  speech. 

MR.  GREY  made  a  very  fine  speech.  He  described  the  ministers  as  "  bold 
bad  men  "—their  measures  he  repeatedly  declared  to  be  not  only  "weak,  but 
wicked  ". 

MR.  BYXG  said  a  few  words. 

GENERAL  TARLETON  and  the  Electors  of  Liverpool  being  given,  the  General, 
after  an  euloginm  on  Mr.  Fox,  begged  to  anticipate  their  favourite  concluding 
toast,  and  to  give  "  The  Cause  of  Freedom  all  over  the  World".  This  toast  un- 
fortunately gave  rise  to  an  altercation  which  threatened  to  disturb  the  harmony 
of  the  evening.  Olaudah  Equiano,  the  African,  and  Henry  Yorke,  the  mulatto, 
insisted  upon  being  heard  ;  but  as  it  appeared  that  they  were  entering  upon  a 
subject  which  would  have  entirely  altered  the  complexion  of  the  Meeting,  they 
were,  though  not  without  some  difficulty,  withheld  from  proceeding  further. 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  33 

MR.  ERSKINE  rose,  in  consequence  of  some  allusions  which  had  been  made 
to  Trial  by  Jury.  He  professed  himself  to  be  highly  flattered  by  the  encomiums 
which  had  been  lavished  upon  him  ;  at  the  same  time  he  was  conscious  that  he 
could  not,  without  some  degree  of  reserve,  consent  to  arrogate  to  himself  those 
qualities  which  the  partiality  of  his  friends  had  attributed  to  him.  He  had,  on 
former  occasions,  declared  himself  to  be  clothed  with  the  infirmities  of  man's 
nature  ;  and  he  now  begged  leave  in  all  humility  to  reiterate  that  confession  ; 
he  should  never  cease  to  consider  himself  as  a  feeble,  and  with  respect  to  the 
extent  of  his  faculties  in  many  respects,  a  finite  being — he  had  ever  borne  in 
mind,  and  he  hoped  he  should  ever  continue  to  bear  in  mind,  those  words  of  the 
inspired  Penman,  "Thou  hast  made  him  less  than  the  angels,  to  crown  him 
with  glory  and  honour".  These  lines  were  indeed  applicable  to  the  state  of  man 
in  general,  but  of  no  man  more  than  himself;  they  appeared  to  him  pointed  and 
personal,  and  little  less  than  prophetic ;  they  were  always  present  to  his  mind ; 
he  could  wish  to  wear  them  in  his  breast  as  a  sort  of  amulet  against  the  en- 
chantment of  public  applause,  and  the  witcheries  of  vanity  and  self-delusion ; 
yet  if  he  were  indeed  possessed  of  those  super-human  powers— all  pretensions 
to  which  he  again  begged  leave  most  earnestly  to  disclaim — if  he  were  endowed 
with  the  eloquence  of  an  angel,  and  with  all  those  other  faculties  which  we 
attribute  to  angelic  natures,  it  would  be  impossible  for  him  to  do  justice  to  the 
eloquence  with  which  the  Honourable  Gentleman  who  opened  the  meeting  had 
defended  the  Cause  of  Freedom,  identified  as  he  conceived  it  to  be  with  the 
persons  and  government  of  the  DIRECTORY.  In  his  present  terrestrial  state  he 
could  only  address  it  as  a  prayer  to  God  and  as  counsel  to  Man  that  the  words 
which  they  had  heard  from  that  Honourable  Gentleman  might  work  inwardly 
in  their  hearts,  and  in  due  time,  produce  the  fruit  of  Liberty  and  Revolution. 

He  had  not  the  advantage  of  being  personally  acquainted  with  any  of  the 
Gentlemen  of  the  DIRECTORY  ;  he  understood,  however,  that  one  of  them  (MR. 
MERLIN)  previous  to  the  last  change,  had  stood  in  a  situation  similar  to  his  own 
—he  was,  in  fact,  nothing  less  than  a  leading  Advocate  and  Barrister  in  the 
midst  of  a  free,  powerful  and  enlightened  people. 

^The  conduct  of  the  DIRECTORY  with  regard  to  the  exiled  Deputies  had  been 
objected  to  by  some  persons  on  the  score  of  a  pretended  rigour.  For  his  part  he 
should  only  say  that  having  been,  as  he  had  been,  both  a  Soldier  and  a 
Sailor,  if  it  had  been  his  fortune  to  have  stood  in  either  of  those  two  relations 
to  the  DIRECTORY— as  a  Man  and  as  a  Major-General  he  should  not  have  scrupled 
to  direct  his  artillery  against  the  National  Representation  :— as  a  Naval  Officer 
he  would  undoubtedly  have  undertaken  for  the  removal  of  the  Exiled  Deputies  ; 
admitting  the  exigency.under  all  its  relations,  as  it  appeared  to  him  to  exist, 
and  the  then  circumstances  of  the  times,  with  all  their  bearings  and  de- 
pendencies, branching  out  into  an  infinity  of  collateral  considerations,  and  in- 
volving in  each  a  variety  of  objects  political,  physical,  and  moral ;  and  these 
again  under  their  distinct  and  separate  heads,  ramifying  into  endless  sub- 
divisions which  it  was  foreign  to  his  purpose  to  consider. 

Having  thus  disposed  of  this  part  of  his  subject,  MR.  ERSKINE  passed  in  a 
strain  of  rapid  and  brilliant  allusions  over  a  variety  of  points  characteristic  of 
the  conduct  and  disposition  of  the  present  Ministry;  Mr.  Burke's  metaphor  of 
"the  Swinish  Multitude,"  Mr.  Reeves'  metaphor  of  the  "Tree  of  Monarchy," 
"  the  Battle  of  Tranent,"  "  the  March  to  Paris,"  the  phrase  of  "  Acquitted 
Felons,"  and  the  exclamation  of  "  Perish  Commerce  "—which  last  expression 
he  declared  he  should  never  cease  to  attribute  to  Mr.  Windham  ;  so  long,  at 
least,  as  it  should  please  the  Sovereign  Dispenser  to  continue  to  him  the  power 
of  utterance  and  the  enjoyment  of  his  present  faculties.  He  condemned  the  ex- 
pedition to  Ouiberon,  he  regretted  the  "  Fate  of  Messrs.  Muir  and  Palmer,"  he 
exulted  in  the  "Acquittal  of  Citizens  Tooke,  Hardy,  Thelwall,  Holcroft  and 
others,"  and  he  blessed  that  Providence  to  which  (as  it  had  been  originally 
allotted  to  him  (Mr.  Krskine)  the  talents  which  had  been  exerted  in  their  de- 
fence) the  preservation  of  those  Citizens  might  perhaps  be  indirectly  attributed. 
He  then  descanted  on  the  captivity  of  La  Fayette,  and  the  Dividend  on  the 
Imperial  Loan. 

After  fully  exhausting  these  subjects,  MR.  ERSKINE  resumed  a  topic  on  which 
he  had  only  slightly  glanced  before.  In  a  most  delicate  and  sportive  vein  of 


34  POETBY   OF 

humour  he  contended,  that  if  the  people  were  a  Swinish  Multitude,  those  who 
represented  them  must  necessarily  be  a  Swinish  Representation.  It  would  be 
in  vain  to  attempt  to  do  justice  to  the  polite  and  easy  pleasantry  which  per- 
vaded this  part  of  MR.  ERSKINE'S  speech.  Suffice  it  to  say  that  the  taste  of  the 
Audience  showed  itself  in  complete  unison  with  the  genius  of  the  Orator,  and 
the  whole  of  this  passage  was  crowned  with  loud  and  reiterated  plaudits.  After 
a  speech  of  unexampled  exertion,  MR.  ERSKINE  now  began  to  enter  much  at 
length  into  a  recital  of  select  passages  from  our  most  approved  English  authors, 
concluding  with  a  copious  extract  from  the  several  Publications  of  the  late  MR. 
BURKE  ;  but  such  were  the  variety  and  richness  of  his  quotations  which  he  con- 
tinued to  an  extent  far  exceeding  the  limits  of  this  paper,  that  we  found  our- 
selves under  the  necessity,  either  of  considerably  abridging  our  original  matter, 
or  omitting  them  altogether,  which  latter  alternative  we  adopted  the  more 
readily  as  the  greater  part  of  these  brilliant  citations  have  already  past 
through  the  ordeal  of  a  public  and  patriotic  auditory ;  and  as  there  is  every 
probability  that  the  circumstances  of  the  times  will  again  call  them  forth  on 
some  future  emergency. 

MR.  ERSKINE  concluded  by  recapitulating,  in  a  strain  of  agonizing  and  im- 

gressive'eloquence,  the  several  more  prominent  heads  of  his  speech :— He  had 
een  a  Soldier  and  a  Sailor,  and  had  a  son  at  Winchester  school— he  had  been 
called  by  Special  Retainers,  during  the  summer,  into  many  different  and  distant 
parts  of  the  country — travelling  chiefly  in  Post-chaises — He  felt  himself  called 
upon  to  declare  that  his  poor  faculties  were  at  the  service  of  his  Country— of  the 
free  and  enlightened  part  of  it  at  least — He  stood  here  as  a  Man— He  stood  in 
the  Eye,  indeed  in  the  Hand  of  GOD — to  whom  (in  the  presence  of  the  Company 
and  Waiters)  he  solemnly  appealed — He  was  of  Noble,  perhaps,  Royal  Blood 
— He  had  a  house  at  Hampstead— was  convinced  of  the  necessity  of  a  thorough 
and  radical  Reform— His  Pamphlet  had  gone  through  Thirty  Editions— skip- 
ping alternately  the  odd  and  even  numbers — He  loved  the  Constitution,  to  which 
he  would  cling  and  grapple— And  he  was  clothed  with  the  infirmities  of  man's 
nature— He  would  apply  to  the  present  French  Rulers  (particularly  BARRAS  and 
REUBEL)  the  words  of  the  poet : — 

"  Be  to  their  Faults  a  little  blind ; 

"  Be  to  their  Virtues  very  kind, 

"  Let  all  their  ways  be  uncontin'd, 

"  And  clap  the  Padlock  on  their  mind  !  " 

And  for  these  reasons,  thanking  the  Gentlemen  who  had  done  him  the  honour 
to  drink  his  Health,  he  should  propose  "  MERLIN,  the  late  Minister  of  Justice,  ami 
Trial  by  Jury !"  MR.  ERSKINE  here  concluded  a  speech  which  had  occupied 
the  attention  and  excited  the  applause  of  his  Audience  during  a  space  of  little 
less  than  three  hours,  allowing  for  about  three  quarters  of  an  hour,  which  were 
occupied  by  successive  fits  of  fainting,  between  the  principal  subdivisions  of 
his  discourse.— MR.  ERSKINE  descended  from  the  Table,  and  was  conveyed  down 
stairs  by  the  assistance  of  his  friends.  On  arriving  at  the  corner  of  the  Piazzas, 
they  were  surprized  by  a  very  unexpected  embarrassment.  MR.  ERSKINE'S 
horses  had  been  taken  from  the  carriage,  and  a  number  of  able  Chairmen  en- 
gaged to  supply  their  place ;  but  these  fellows  having  contrived  to  intoxicate 
themselves  with  the  money  which  the  Coachman  had  advanced  to  them  on 
account,  were  become  so  restive  and  unruly,  so  exorbitant  in  their  demands 
(positively  refusing  to  abide  by  their  former  engagement)  that  MR.  ERSKINE 
deemed  it  unsafe  to  trust  himself  in  their  hands,  and  determined  to  wait  the 
return  of  his  own  more  tractable  and  less  chargeable  animals.  This  unpleasant 
scene  continued  for  above  an  hour. 

MR.  SHERIDAN'S  health  was  now  drunk  in  his  absence  and  received  with  an 
appearance  of  general  approbation ;  —when  in  the  midst  of  the  applause  MR. 
Fox  arose,  in  apparent  agitation,  and  directed  the  attention  of  the  Company 
to  the  rising,  manly  virtues  of  MR.  MACFUNGUS. 

MR.  MACFUNGUS  declared  that  to  pretend  he  was  not  elated  by  the  en- 
comiums with  which  MR.  Fox  had  honoured  him  was  an  affectation  which  he 
disdained ; — such  encomiums  would  ever  form  the  proudest  recompense  of  his 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  35 


patriotic  labours— he  confessed  they  were  cheering  to  him— he  felt  them  warm  at 
his  heart— and  while  a  single  fibre  of  his  frame  preserved  its  vibration,  it  would 
throb  in  unison  to  the  approbation  of  that  Honourable  Gentleman.  The  applause 
of  the  Company  was  no  less  flattering  to  him— he  felt  his  faculties  invigorated 
by  it,  and  stimulated  to  the  exertion  of  new  energies  in  the  race  of  mind.  Every 
other  sensation  was  obliterated  and  absorbed  by  it ;  for  the  present,  however, 
he  would  endeavour  to  suppress  his  feelings,  and  concentre  his  energies  for  the 
purpose  of  explaining  to  the  Company  why  he  assisted  now  for  the  first  time  at 
the  celebration  of  the  Fifth  Revolution  which  had  been  effected  in  regenerated 
France.  The  various  and  extraordinary  talents  of  the  Right  Hon.  Ge_ntlemaii 
— his  vehement  and  overpowering  perception,  his  vigorous  and  splendid  intuition 
would  for  ever  attract  the  admiration  of  all  those  who  were  in  any  degree  en- 
dowed with  those  faculties  themselves  or  capable  of  estimating  them  in  others  ; 
as  such,  he  had  ever  been  among  the  most  ardent  admirers,  and  on  many  occa- 
sions, among  the  most  ardent  supporters  of  the  Right  Hon.  Gentleman— ho 
agreed  with  him  in  many  points— in  his  general  love  of  Liberty  and  Revolution  ; 
in  his  execration  of  the  War  ;  in  his  detestation  of  Ministers  ;  but  he  entertained 
his  doubts,  and  till  those  doubts  were  cleared  up,  he  could  not,  consistently  with 
his  principles,  attend  at  the  celebration  of  any  Revolution  whatever. 

These  doubts,  however,  were  now  satisfactorily  done  away.  A  pledge  had 
been  entered  into  for  accomplishing  an  effectual  radical  Revolution  ;  not  for  the 
mere  overthrow  of  the  present  System,  nor  for  the  establishment  of  any  other 
in  its  place ;  but  for  the  effecting  such  a  series  of  Revolutions  as  might  be 
sufficient  for  the  establishment  of  a  Free  System. 

Mu.  MACFUNGUS  continued  he  was  incapable  of  compromising  with  first 
principles,  of  acquiescing  in  short-sighted  temporary  palliative  expedients  :  if 
such  had  been  his  temper  he  should  assuredly  have  rested  satisfied  with  tha 
pledge  which  that  Right  Hon.  Gentleman  had  entered  into  about  six  months 
ago  on  the  subject  of  Parliamentary  Reform,  in  which  pledge  he  considered  the 
promise  of  that  previous  and  preliminary  Revolution,  to  which  he  had  before 
alluded,  as  essentially  implicated. 

"Whenever  this  Reform  takes  place,"  exclaimed  MR.  MACFUNGUS,  "the 
present  degraded  and  degrading  system  must  fall  into  dissolution  ;  it  must  sink 
and  perish  with  the  corruptions  which  have  supported  it.  The  national 
energies  will  awake,  and  shaking  off  their  lethargy  as  their  fetters  drop  from 
them,  they  will  follow  the  Angel  of  their  Revolution,  while  the  Genius  of  Free- 
dom soaring  aloft  beneath  the  orb  of  Gallic  Illumination  will  brush  away  as 
with  the  wing  of  an  Eagle  all  the  cobwebs  of  Aristocracy.  But  before  the 
Temple  of  Freedom  can  be  erected  in  their  place,  the  surface  which  they  have 
occupied  must  be  smoothed  and  levelled — it  must  be  cleared  by  repeated  Re- 
volutionary Explosions  from  all  the  lumber  and  rubbish  with  which  Aristocracy 
and  Fanaticism  will  endeavour  to  encumber  it,  and  to  impede  the  progress 
of  the  holy  work.— The  sacred  level,  the  symbol  of  Fraternal  Equality,  must  be 
passed  over  the  whole. — The  completion  of  the  Edifice  will  indeed  be  the  more 
tardy,  but  it  will  not  be  the  less  durable  for  having  been  longer  delayed — Ce- 
mented with  the  blood  of  tyrants,  and  the  tears  of  the  Aristocracy,  it  will 
rise  a  monument  for  the  astonishment  and  veneration  of  future  ages.  The 
remotest  posterity,  with  our  children  yet  unborn,  and  the  most  distant  portions 
of  the  Globe,  will  crowd  around  its  Gates  and  demand  admission  into  its 
Sanctuary. — The  Tree  of  Liberty  will  be  planted  in  the  midst  of  it,  and  its 
branches  will  extend  to  the  ends  of  the  Earth,  while  the  Friends  of  Freedom 
meet  and  fraternize  and  amalgamate  under  its  consolatory  shade.  There  our 
Infants  shall  be  taught  to  lisp  in  tender  accents  the  Revolutionary  Hymn — 
there  with  wreaths  of  myrtle,  and  oak,  and  poplar,  and  vine  and  olive  and 
cypress  and  ivy ;  with  violets  and  roses  and  daffodils  and  dandelions  in  our 
hands  we  will  swear  respect  to  childhood  and  manhood  and  old  age,  and 
virginity  and  womanhood  and  widowhood  ;  but  above  all  to  the  Supreme  Being. 
—There  we  will  decree  and  sanction  the  Immortality  of  the  Soul.— There  pillars 
and  obelisks,  and  arches  and  pyramids,  will  awaken  the  love  of  Glory  and  of 
our  Country. — There  Painters  and  Statuaries,  with  their  chisels  and  colours, 
and  Engravers  with  their  engraving  tools  will  perpetuate  the  interesting 
features  of  our  Revolutionary  Heroes ;  while  our  Poets  and  Musicians,  with  an 


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POETRY   OF 


honourable  emulation,  strive  to  immortalize  their  memory.  Their  bones  will 
be  entombed  in  the  Vault  below,  while  their  sacred  Shades  continue  hovsring 
over  our  Heads— those  venerated  Manes  which  from  time  to  time  will  require 
to  be  appeased  by  the  blood  of  the  remaining  Aristocrats.— Then  Peace  and 
Freedom,  and  Fraternity  and  Equality  will  pervade  the  whole  Earth— while  the 
Vows  of  Republicanism,  the  Altar  of  Patriotism,  and  the  Revolutionary  Pontiff, 
with  the  thrilling  volcanic  Sympathies,  whether  of  Holy  Fury  or  of  ardent  Fra- 
ternal Civism,  uniting  and  identifying,  produce  as  it  were  an  electric  Energy." 

MR.  MACFUNGUS  here  paused  for  a  few  moments,  seemingly  overpowered  by 
the  excess  of  Sensibility,  and  the  force  of  the  ideas  which  he  was  labouring  to 
convey. — The  whole  Company  appeared  to  sympathize  with  his  unaffected  emo- 
tions. After  a  short  interval,  he  recovered  himself  from  a  very  impressive 
silence,  and  continued  as  follows : 

"These  prospects,  Fellow-Citizens,  may  possibly  be  deferred.  The  Machi- 
avelism  of  Governments  may  for  the  time  prevail,  and  this  unnatural  and 
execrable  contest  may  yet  be  prolonged ;  but  the  hour  is  not  far  distant ; 
Persecution  will  only  serve  to  accelerate  it,  and  the  blood  of  Patriotism  stream- 
ing from  the  severing  axe  will  call  down  vengeance  on  our  oppressors  in  a  voice 
of  Thunder.  I  expect  the  contest,  ami  I  am  prepared  for  it.— I  hope  I  shall 
never  shrink  nor  swerve  nor  start  aside  wherever  duty  and  inclination  may 
place  me.  My  services,  my  life  itself,  are  at  your  disposal — Whether  to  act  or  to 
suffer,  I  am  yours— With  HAMPDEN  in  the  field,  or  with  SIDNEY  on  the  scaffold. 
My  example  may  be  more  useful  to  you  than  my  talents :  and  this  head  may 
perhaps  serve  your  cause  more  effectually,  if  placed  on  a  pole  on  Temple  Bar, 
than  if  it  was  occupied  in  organizing  your  Committees,  in  preparing  your  Re- 
volutionary Explosions,  and  conducting  your  Correspondence." 

MR.  MACFUNGUS  said  he  should  give,  as  an  unequivocal  test  of  his  senti- 
ments, "BUONAPARTE  AND  A  RADICAL  REFORM". 

The  conclusion  of  Mr.  MACFUNGUS'S  speech  was  followed  by  a  simultaneous 
burst  of  rapturous  approbation  from  every  part  of  the  room.  The  applause  con- 
tinued for  several  minutes,  during  which  MR.  MACFUNGUS  repeatedly  rose  to 
express  his  feelings. 

The  conversation  now  became  more  mixed  and  animated  ;  several  excellent 
Songs  were  sung,  and  Toasts  drank,  while  the  progressive  and  patriotic  festivity 
of  the  evening  was  heightened  by  the  vocal  powers  of  several  of  the  most 
popular  Singers.  A  new  Song  written  by  Captain  MORRIS  received  its 
sanction  in  the  warmest  expression  of  applause.  The  whole  company  joined 
with  enthusiasm  in  their  old  favourite  Chorus  of  Bow  !  Wow  !!  Wow  !!! 

[MACFUNGUS  stands  for  SIR  JAMES  MACKINTOSH,  who,  after  studying 
medicine  in  Edinburgh,  settled  in  London,  and  wrote  for  the  opposition  news- 
papers, particularly  the  Morning  Poxt,  Daniel  Stuart,  the  proprietor,  being  his 
father-in-law.  The  first  work  that  brought  him  into  notice  was  his  Vindlciai 
Gallicoi  (1791),  in  reply  to  Burke's  Reflections  on  the  French  Revolution,  which 
splendid  philippic  it  greatly  surpassed  in  philosophic  thought,  sound  feeling, 
and  common  sense.  It  was  enthusiastically  received  by  the  Liberal  party, 
whose  leaders  eagerly  sought  his  acquaintance  and  co-operation ;  and  when  the 
Association  of  the  Friends  of  the  People  was  formed,  he  was  appointed  Secretary. 
His  subsequent  successful  career  as  an  Advocate.  Indian  Judge,  Member  of 
Parliament,  Minister  under  Lord  Grey,  and  as  an  English  historian,  bore  out 
the  promise  of  his  youth.  He  was  born  in  1705  and  died  in  1832. — ED.] 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  37 


No.  V. 

Dec.  11,  1797. 

WE  have  already  hinted  at  the  principle  by  which  the 
followers  of  the  Jacobinical  sect  are  restrained  from  the 
exercise  of  their  own  favourite  virtue  of  charity.  The 
force  of  this  prohibition,  and  the  strictness  with  which  it 
is  observed,  are  strongly  exemplified  in  the  following 
poem.  It  is  the  production  of  the  same  author  [SOUTHEY] 
whose  happy  effort  in  English  Sapphics  we  presumed  to 
imitate  ;  the  present  effusion  is  in  Dactylics,  and  equally 
subject  to  the  laws  of  Latin  Prosody. 

THE  SOLDIER'S  WIFE. 
Weary  way-wanderer,  languid  and  sick  at  heart, 
Travelling  painfully  over  the  rugged  road  ; 
Wild  visag'd  wanderer — ah  for  thy  heavy  chance. 

We  think  that  we  see  him  fumbling  in  the  pocket  of 
his  blue  pantaloons  ;  that  the  splendid  shilling  is  about 
to  make  its  appearance,  and  to  glitter  in  the  eyes,  and 
glad  the  heart  of  the  poor  sufferer.  But  no  such  thing 
— the  bard  very  calmly  contemplates  her  situation,  which 
he  describes  in  a  pair  of  very  pathetical  stanzas ;  and 
after  the  following  well-imagined  topic  of  consolation, 
concludes  by  leaving  her  to  Providence. 

Thy  husband  will  never  return  from  the  war  again ; 
Cold  is  thy  hopeless  heart,  even  as  charity  ; 
Cold  are  thy  famished  babes — God  help  thee,  widow'd 
one  ! 


38  POETBY   OF 

We  conceived  that  it  would  be  necessary  to  follow  up 
this  general  rule  with  the  particular  exception,  and  to 
point  out  one  of  those  cases  in  which  the  embargo  upon 
Jacobin  bounty  is  sometimes  suspended  ;  *  with  this  view 
we  have  subjoined  the  poem  of 

THE  SOLDIEE'S  FEIEND. 

DACTYLICS. 

COME,  little  Drummer  Boy,  lay  down  your  knapsack  here: 
I  am  the  soldier's  friend — here  are  some  books  for  you  ; 
Nice  clever  books  by  TOM  PAINE,  the  philanthropist.f 

*  [The  original  poem  is  here  subjoined  :  — 
THE  SOLDIER'S  WIFE. 

DACTYLICS. 

"Weary  way-wanderer,  languid  and  sick  at  heart, 
Travelling  painfully  over  the  rugged  road ; 
Wild-visaged  wanderer  !  Ah !  for  thy  heavy  chance. 

Sorely  thy  little  ones  drag  by  thee  barefooted, 
Cold  is  the  baby  that  hangs  at  thy  bending  back — 
Meagre  and  livid,  and  screaming  its  wretchedness. 

Woe-begone  mother,  half  anger,  half  agony, 

As  over  thy  shoulder  thou  lookest  to  hush  the  babe, 

Bleakly  the  blinding  snow  beats  in  thy  haggard  face. 

Thy  husband  will  never  return  from  the  war  again  ; 

Cold  is  thy  hopeless  heart,  even  as  charity — 

Cold  are  thy  famished  babes — God  help  thee,  widowed  one  !] 
1795. 

f  ["  Walked  to  the  Old  Bailey  to  see  DAVID  ISAAC  EATON  in 
the  pillory.  The  mob  was  decidedly  friendly  to  him.  His 
having  published  PAINE'S  Age  of  Reason  was  not  an  intelligible 
offence  to  them." — Crabb  Robinson's  Diary,  i.  386. 

The  Proclamation  against  Seditious  Writings,  however,  was 
supported  by  some  influential  Whigs.  "  PITT  had  previously 
sent  copies  of  it  to  several  members  of  the  Opposition  in  both 
Houses,  requesting  their  advice,"  says  Lord  Malmesbury. 
Whether  PITT  desired  it  or  not,  no  rneasiire  could  have  been 
more  effectual  for  dividing  the  Whig  party. — ED.] 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  39 

Here's  half-a-crown  for  you — here  are  some  handbills 

too — 

Go  to  the  barracks,  and  give  all  the  soldiers  some. 
Tell  them  the  sailors  are  all  in  a  mutiny. 

Exit  Drummer  Boy,  with  handbills  and  half-a- 
crown. — Manet  Soldier's  Friend. 

Liberty's  friends  thus  all  learn  to  amalgamate, 
Freedom's  volcanic  explosion  prepares  itself, 
Despots  shall  bow  to  the  fasces  of  liberty. 
Eeason,  philosophy,  "  fiddledum  diddledum," 
Peace  and  fraternity,  higgledy,  piggledy, 
Higgledy,  piggledy,  "fiddledum  diddledum  ". 

Et  cetera,  et  cetera,  et  cetera. 


SONNET.— TO  LIBEETY. 

JUST  Guardian  of  man's  social  bliss  !  for  thee 
The  paths  of  danger  gladly  would  I  tread  : 
For  thee  !  contented,  join  the  glorious  dead, 

Who  nobly  scorn'd  a  life  that  was  not  free  ! 

But  worse  than  death  it  pains  my  soul  to  see 
The  Lord  of  Euin,  by  wild  Uproar  led, 
Hell's  first-born,  ANARCHY,  exalt  his  head, 

And  seize  thy  throne,  and  bid  us  bow  the  knee  ! 

What  though  his  iron  sceptre,  blood-imbrued, 
Crush  half  the  nations  with  resistless  might ; 

Never  shall  this  firm  spirit  be  subdued  : 
In  chains,  in  exile,  still  the  chanted  rite, 

0  LIBERTY  !  to  thee  shall  be  renew'd  : 

0  still  be  sea-girt  ALBION  thy  delight !         D. 


40  POETBY    OF 


No.  VI. 

Dec.  18,  1797. 

WE  cannot  enough  congratulate  ourselves  on  having 
been  so  fortunate  as  to  fall  upon  the  curious  specimens  of 
classical  metre  and  correct  sentiment  which  we  have 
made  the  subject  of  our  late  Jacobinical  imitations. 

The  fashion  of  admiring  and  imitating  these  produc- 
tions has  spread  in  a  surprising  degree.  Even  those  who 
sympathise  with  the  principles  of  the  writer  selected  as 
our  model,  seem  to  have  been  struck  with  the  ridicule  of 
his  poetry. 

There  appeared  in  the  Morning  Chronicle  of  Monday  a 
Sapphic  Ode,  apparently  written  by  a  friend  and  associate 
of  our  author,  in  which  he  is  however  travestied  most 
unmercifully.  And  to  make  the  joke  the  more  pointed, 
the  learned  and  judicious  editor  contrived  to  print  the 
ode  en  masse,  without  any  order  of  lines,  or  division  of 
stanza  ;  so  that  it  was  not  discovered  to  be  verse  till  the 
next  day,  when  it  was  explained  in  a  hobbling  erratum. 

We  hardly  know  which  to  consider  as  the  greater 
object  of  compassion  in  this  case — the  original  Odisl, 
thus  parodied  by  his  friend,  or  the  mortified  Parodist. 
thus  mutilated  by  his  printer.  "  Et  t/t,  Brute!"  has 
probably  been  echoed  from  each  of  these  worthies  to  his 
murderer,  in  a  tone  that  might  melt  the  hardest  heart  to 
pity. 

We  cordially  wish  them  joy  of  each  other,  and  we 
resign  the  modern  Lesbian  lyre  into  their  hands  without 
envy  or  repining. 

Our    author's   DACTYLICS    have    produced    a    second 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  41 

imitation  (conveyed  to  us  from  an  unknown  hand),  with 
which  we  take  our  leave  of  this  species  of  poetry  also. 

THE  SOLDIEK'S  WIFE.* 

DACTYLICS. 

"  Weary  way-wanderer,"  &c.  &c. 

IMITATION. 

DACTYLICS. 

Being  the  quintessence  of  all  the  Dactylics  that  ever  were,  or  ever  will 
be  written, 

HUMBLY   ADDRESSED   TO   THE   AUTHOR   OF  THE   ABOVE. 

WEARISOME  Sonnetteer,  feeble  and  querulous, 
Painfully  dragging  out  thy  demo-cratic  lays — 
Moon-stricken  Sonnetteer,  "ah  !  for  thy  heavy  chance  ! " 

Sorely  thy  Dactylics  lag  on  uneven  feet : 
Slow  is  the  syllable  which  thou  wouldst  urge  to  speed, 
Lame  and  o'erburthen'd,  and  "  screaming  its  wretched- 
ness ! " 

.     .     .     .' t 

Ne'er  talk  of  ears  again !  look  at  thy  spelling-book ; 
Dilworth  and  Dyche  %  are  both  mad  at  thy  quantities — 
DACTYLICS,  call'st  thou  'em — God  help  thee,  silly  one  !  " 


[*  See  p.  38.— ED.] 

f  My  worthy  friend  the  bellman  had  promised  to  supply  an 
additional  stanza ;  but  the  business  of  assisting  the  lamp- 
lighter, chimney-sweeper,  &c.,  with  complimentary  verses  for 
their  worthy  masters  and  mistresses,  pressing  on  him  at  this 
season,  he  was  obliged  to  decline  it.  [A  quiz  at  the  third 
stanza,  which  was  contributed  by  COLERIDGE. — ED.] 

[J  Thomas  Dyche  was  a  clergyman,  and  kept  a  school  at 
Stratford-le-Bow.  He  was  the  author  of  an  English  dictionary, 
a  spelling-book,  a  Latin  vocabulary,  &c.  He  died  about  1750. 
Thomas  Dilworth,  whose  educational  works  were  long  popular, 
was  for  some  time  his  assistant,  and  then  set  up  a  school  for 
himself  at  Wapping.  He  died  in  1781. — ED.] 


POETRY    OF 


[The  following  is  the  Sapphic  Ode  alluded  to  above,  which 
was  intended  by  the  poet  of  the  Morning  Chronicle  as  a  "  retort 
courteous"  to  the  Friend  of  Humanity.  The  printer  of  that 
paper,  unfortunately,  being  new  to  "  such  branches  of  learning," 
and  not  dreaming  it  could  be  intended  for  poetry,  printed  it  as 
below.  The  mistake  seems  to  have  been  immediately  discovered, 
for  it  re-appeared  next  day  (Dec.  12)  in  the  guise  of  verse. — ED.] 

THE  COLLECTOE  AND  THE  HOUSEHOLDER. 

The  Hint  taken  from  the  Anti-Jacobin,  "Needy  Knife-Grinders". 


H.  Greedy  Collector,  whither 
are  you  going,  thus  with 
your  inkhorn  in  your  button- 
hole, and  ledger  so  snugly 
underneath  your  coat  ?  Say, 
greedy  Collector. 

C.  Much  I  rejoice  that  I  have 
met  you  here,  friend :  turn 
back,  I  pri'thee,  'tis  with  you 
I  want  to  speak ;  I  am  come 
on  business  of  importance — 
gentle  Householder. 

H.  Greedy  Collector,  well  I 
know  your  business,  'tis  for 
my  taxes  you  are  come  to 
dun  me ;  well  1  'tis  the  last 
time  you  will  have  a  right  to 
ask  me  for  money.  Buggy, 
no  longer  do  I  drive  a  smart 
one ;  smash  went  my  gig,  as 
long  [ago]  as  Easter ;  down 
Highgate  hill  we  tumbled  al- 
together, horse,  wife,  and  I, 
Sir.  One  broke  his  knees, 
and*  another  broke  his 
collar-bone ;  there's  an  end 
of  pleasuring  on  Sundays. 
Take  my  last  payment ; 
there  is  your  two  pounds 
twelve  shillings  and  nine- 
pence. 


C.  Gentle  householder,  much 
are  you  mistaken;  Order, 
Religion,  Constitution, 

Laws,  and  rational  freedom, 
all  demand  from  you  a — 
triple  assessment. 

H.  Triple  Assessment !  What 
beside  the  old  tax  ? 

C.  Certainly :  come,  deposit, 
I'm  a  waiting. 

H.  Wait  and  be  damned. 
What  is  it  you  are  after  ? 

C.  Ten  pounds  eleven. 

H.  Ten  pounds  eleven !  have  I 
not  informed  thee  gig  I  have 
none?  I've  sent  it  to  the 
hammer  ;  Pay  for  a  gig  and 
not  [to]  have  it ! 

G.   But  you  had  one  at  Easter  ! 

H.  Easter  is  past  and  gone. 
I'll  never  pay  thee. 

C.  Gentle  Householder,  then  I 
must  proceed  to  shew  thee 
a  little  bit  of  parchment, 
called  a  writ  of  distringer 
[for  distringas]. 

[Exit  Collector  to  take  posses- 
sion of  the  Householder's 
bed  and  furniture. 


[*  and  should  have  been  omitted. — ED.] 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  43 

The  verses  which  we  here  present  to  the  public  were 
written  immediately  after  the  Eevolution  of  the  4th  of 
September.  We  should  be  much  obliged  to  any  of  our 
classical  and  loyal  correspondents  for  an  English  trans- 
lation of  them. 

LATIN  VEKSES 

Written  immediately  after  the  Revolution  of  the  4th  of  September. 

IPSA  mali  Hortatrix  scelerumque  uberrima  Mater 
In  se  prima  suos  vertit  lymphata  furores, 
Luctaturque  diu  secum,  et  couatibus  aegris 
Fessa  cadit,  proprioque  jacet  labefacta  veneno. 

Mox  tamen  ipsius  rursum  violentia  morbi 
Erigit  ardentern  furiis,  ultroque  minantem 
Spargere  bella  procul,  vasteeque  incendia  cladis, 
Civilesque  agitare  faces,  totumque  per  orbem 
Sceptra  super  Kegum  et  Populorum  subdita  colla 
Ferre  pedem,  et  sanctas  Eegnorum  evertere  sedes. 

Aspicis  !  Ipsa  sui  bacchatur  sanguine  Regis, 
Barbaraque  ostentans  feralis  signa  triumphi, 
Mole  gigantea  campis  prorumpit  apertis, 
Successu  scelerum,  atque  insanis  viribus  audax. 

At  qui\  Pestis  atrox  rapido  se  turbine  vertit, 
Cernis  ibi,  prisca  morum  compage  soluta, 
Procubuisse  solo  civilis  fo3dera  vitae, 
Et  quodcunque  Fides,  quodcunque  habet  alma  verendi 
Eeligio,  Pietasque  et  Legum  fraena  sacrarum. 

Nee  spes  Pacis  adhuc — necdum  exsaturata  rapinis 
Effera  Bellatrix,  fusove  expleta  cruore. 
Crescit  inextinctus  Furor,  atque  exsestuat  ingens 


44  POETRY    OF 

Ambitio,  immanisque  ira  Vindicta  renata 
Eeliquias  Soliorum  et  adhuc  restantia  Regna 
Flagitat  excidio,  praedaeque  incumbit  opimae. 

Una  etenim  in  mediis  Gens  intemerata  minis 
Libertate  proba,  et  justo  libramine  rerum, 
Securum  f austis  degit  sub  legibus  aevum ; 
Antiquosque  colit  mores,  et  jura  Parentum 
Ordine  firma  suo,  sanoque  intacta  vigore, 
Servat  adhuc,  hominumque  fidem,  curamque  Deorum. 
Eheu !  quanta  odiis  avidoque  alimenta  furori ! 
Quanta  profanatas  inter  spoliabitur  aras 
Victima  !  si  quando  versis  Victoria  fatis 
Annuerit  scelus  extremum,  terraque  subacta 
Impius  Oceani  sceptrum  faedaverit  Hostis  ! 


THE    ANTI- JACOBIN.  45 


No.    VII. 

Dec.  25,  1797. 

WE  have  been  favoured  with  a  translation  of  the  Latin 
verses  inserted  in  our  last  Number.  We  have  little  doubt 
that  our  readers  will  agree  with  us,  in  hoping  that  this 
may  not  be  the  last  contribution  which  we  shall  receive 
from  the  same  hand.* 

PARENT  of  countless  crimes,  in  headlong  rage, 

War  with  herself  see  frantic  Gallia  wage, 

Till  worn  and  wasted  by  intestine  strife, 

She  falls — her  languid  pulse  scarce  quick  with  life. 

But  soon  she  feels  through  every  trembling  vein, 

New  strength  collected  from  convulsive  pain  : 

Onward  she  moves,  and  sounds  the  dire  alarm, 

And  bids  insulted  nations  haste  to  arm ; 

Spreads  wide  the  waste  of  war,  and  hurls  the  brand 

Of  civil  discord  o'er  each  troubled  land, 

While  desolation  marks  her  furious  course, 

And  thrones  subverted  bow  beneath  her  force. 

Behold  !  she  pours  her  Monarch's  guiltless  blood, 
And  quaffs  with  savage  joy  the  crimson  flood ; 
Then,  proud  the  deadly  trophies  to  display 

[*  The  Latin  Verses,  much  admired  at  the  time,  were  written 
by  the  Marquis  WELLESLEY  at  Walrner  Castle,  in  1797,  at  the 
desire  of  PITT,  and  were  published  after  the  author's  departure 
for  India,  in  the  Anti-Jacobin.  The  beautiful  translation  of 
them  was  by  Lord  MORPETH,  afterwards  sixth  Earl  of  CARLISLE, 
whose  mother  was  the  daughter  of  GRANVILLE  LEVESON  GOWER, 
first  Marquis  of  STAFFORD.  He  died  in  1848.] 


46  POETBY   OF 

Of  her  foul  crimes,  resistless  bursts  away, 

Unaw'd  by  justice,  unappall'd  by  fear, 

And  runs  with  giant  strength  her  mad  career. 

Where'er  her  banners  float  in  barbarous  pride, 
Where'er  her  conquest  rolls  its  sanguine  tide, 
There,  the  fair  fabric  of  establish'd  law, 
There  social  order,  and  religious  awe, 
Sink  in  the  general  wreck ;  indignant  there 
Honour  and  Virtue  fly  the  tainted  air ; 
Ply  the  mild  duties  of  domestic  life 
That  cheer  the  parent,  that  endear  the  wife, 
The  lingering  pangs  of  kindred  grief  assuage, 
Or  soothe  the  sorrows  of  declining  age. 

Nor  yet  can  Hope  presage  th'  auspicious  hour, 
When  Peace  shall  check  the  rage  of  lawless  Power; 
Nor  yet  th'  insatiate  thirst  of  blood  is  o'er, 
Nor  yet  has  Eapine  ravaged  every  shore. 
Exhaustless  Passion  feeds  th'  augmented  flame, 
And  wild  Ambition  mocks  the  voice  of  Shame ; 
Eevenge,  with  haggard  look  and  scowling  eyes, 
Surveys  with  horrid  joy  th'  expected  prize ; 
Broods  o'er  each  remnant  of  monarchic  sway, 
And  dooms  to  certain  death  his  fancied  prey. 

For  midst  the  ruins  of  each  falling  state, 
ONE  FAVOUE'D  NATION  braves  the  general  fate — 
One  favour'd  nation,  whose  impartial  laws 
Of  sober  Freedom  vindicate  the  cause  ; 
Her  simple  manners,  midst  surrounding  crimes, 
Proclaim  the  genuine  worth  of  ancient  times ; 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  47 

True  to  herself,  unconquerably  bold, 
The  rights  her  valour  gain'd  she  dares  uphold ; 
Still  with  pure  faith  her  promise  dares  fulfil, 
Still  bows  submission  to  th'  Almighty  will. 

Just  Heav'n !  how  Envy  kindles  at  the  sight ! 
How  mad  Ambition  plans  the  desperate  fight ! 
With  what  new  fury  Vengeance  hastes  to  pour 
Her  tribes  of  rapine  from  yon  crowded  shore  ! 
Just  Heav'n  !  how  fair  a  victim  at  the  shrine 
Of  injured  Freedom  shall  her  life  resign, 
If  e'er,  propitious  to  the  vows  of  hate, 
Unsteady  Conquest  stamp  our  mournful  fate, 
If  e'er  proud  France  usurp  our  ancient  reign, 
And  ride  triumphant  o'er  th'  insulted  main  ! 

****** 

Far  hence  th'  unmanly  thought — the  voice  of  Fame 
Wafts  o'er  th'  applauding  deep  her  DUNCAN'S  name. 
What  though  the  Conqueror  of  th'  Italian  plains 
Deem  nothing  gain'd,  while  this  fair  isle  remains ; 
Though  his  young  breast  with  rash  presumption  glow, 
He  braves  the  vengeance  of  no  vulgar  foe  : 
Conqueror  no  more,  full  soon  his  laurel'd  pride 
Shall  perish — whelm'd  in  Ocean's  angry  tide  ; 
His  broken  bands  shall  rue  the  fatal  day, 
And  scatter'd  fleets  proclaim  BRITANNIA'S  sway. 


48  POETRY    OF 


No.   VIII. 

Jan.  1,  1798. 

A  COEEESPONDENT  has  adapted  the  beautiful  poem  of  the 
BATTLE  OF  SABLA,  in  "Carlyle's  Specimens  of  Arabian 
Poetry,"  to  the  circumstances  of  the  present  moment. 
We  shall  always  be  happy  to  see  the  poetry  of  other 
times  and  nations  so  successfully  engaged  in  the  service 
of  our  country,  and  of  the  present  order  of  society. 

THE   CHOICE. 
(FEOM  THE  BATTLE  OF  SABLA,  BY  JAAFEE  BEN  ALBA.) 

i. 
HAST  thou  not  seen  th'  insulting  foe 

In  fancied  triumphs  crown'd  ? 
And  heard  their  frantic  rulers  throw 

These  empty  threats  around? 
"  Make  now  YOUE  CHOICE  !     The  terms  we  give, 

Desponding  Britons,  hear ! 
These  fetters  on  your  hands  receive, 

Or  in  your  hearts  the  spear." 

Can  we  forget  our  old  renown  ; 

Eesign  the  empire  of  the  sea  ; 
And  yield  at  once  our  sovereign's  crown, 

Our  ancient  laws  and  liberty  ? 

Shall  thus  the  fierce  destroyer's  hand 
Pass  unresisted  o'er  our  native  land  ? 
Our  country  sink,  to  barb'rous  force  a  prey, 
And  ransom  d  ENGLAND  bow  to  Gallic  sway  ? 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  49 

II. 

"  Is  then  the  contest  o'er  ? ''  we  cried, 

"  And  lie  we  at  your  feet  ? 
And  dare  you  vauntingly  decide 

The  fortune  we  shall  meet ? 
A  brighter  day  we  soon  shall  see  ; 

No  more  the  prospect  lours  ; 
And  Conquest,  Peace,  and  Liberty 

Shall  gild  our  future  hours." 

Yes !  we  will  guard  our  old  renown  ; 

Assert  our  empire  o'er  the  sea  ; 
And  keep  untouch'd  our  sovereign's  crown, 

Our  ancient  laws  and  liberty. 

Not  thus  the  fierce  destroyer's  hand 
Shall  scatter  ruin  o'er  this  smiling  land  ; 
No  barb'rous  force  shall  here  divide  its  prey  ; 
Nor  ransom' d  ENGLAND  bow  to  Gallic  sway. 

in. 
The  foe  advance.     In  firm  array 

We'll  rush  o'er  Albion's  sands — 
Till  the  red  sabre  marks  our  way 

Amid  their  yielding  bands  ! 
Then  as  they  lie  in  death's  cold  grasp, 

We'll  cry,  "  OUR  CHOICE  is  MADE  ! 
These  hands  the  sabre's  hilt  shall  clasp, 

Your  hearts  shall  feel  the  blade  ". 

Thus  Britons  guard  their  ancient  fame, 

Assert  their  empire  o'er  the  sea, 
And  to  the  envying  world  proclaim, 

One  nation  still  is  brave  and  free — 
4 


50  POETRY   OF 

Eesolv'd  to  conquer  or  to  die, 
True  to  their  KING,  their  LAWS,  their  LIBERTY  : 
No  barb'rous  foe  finds  here  an  easy  prey — 
Un-ransom'd  ENGLAND  spurns  all  foreign  sway.* 


*  The  original  poem  as  translated,  or  rather  paraphrased,  by 
Prof.  J.  D.  Carlyle,  is  here  subjoined  : — 

THE  CHOICE. 
Sabla  !  thou  saw'st  th'  exulting  foe 

In  fancied  triumphs  crown'd : 
Thou  heard'st  their  frantic  females  throw 

These  galling  taunts  around : 

"Make  now  YOUR  CHOICE — the  terms  we  give, 

Desponding  victims,  hear ! 
These  fetters  on  your  hands  receive, 

Or  in  your  hearts  the  spear." 

"And  is  the  conflict  o'er,"  we  cried, 

And  lie  we  at  your  feet, 
"  And  dare  you  vauntingly  decide 

The  fortune  we  must  meet  ? 

"A  brighter  day  we  soon  shall  see, 

Tho'  now  the  prospect  lowers, 
And  Conquest,  Peace,  and  Liberty 

Shall  gild  our  future  hours." 

The  foe  advanc'd — in  firm  array 

We  rush'd  o'er  SABLA'S  sands, 
And  the  red  sabre  mark'd  our  way 

Amidst  their  yielding  bands. 

Then  as  they  writh'd  in  death's  cold  grasp, 

We  cried,  "  OUR  CHOICE  is  made  ! 
These  hands  the  sabre's  hilt  shall  clasp, 

Your  hearts  shall  have  the  blade  !" 

As  Carlyle's  version  is  although  a  spirited  not  a  faithful 
one,  the  Editor  is  induced  to  present  a  literal  translation, 
from  Translations  of  Ancient  Arabian  Poetry,  by  C.  J.  Lyall,  1885, 
8vo.,  p.  10.  The  contest  was  not  a  battle  but  one  of  the  fre- 
quent skirmishes  between  neighbouring  clans.  Sabla  is  Car- 
lyle's rendering  of  Sahbal  a  Wady,  in  Arabia,  overlooked  by 
twin  peaks. 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  51 

THE  FOLLOWING  POEM  has  been  transmitted  to  us, 
without  preface  or  introduction,  by  a  gentleman  of  the 
name  of  IRELAND.*  We  apprehend  from  the  peculiarities 
of  the  style,  that  it  must  be  the  production  of  a  remote 
period.  We  are  likewise  inclined  to  imagine,  that  it  may 
contain  allusions  to  some  former  event  in  English  his- 
tory. What  that  event  may  have  been,  we  must  submit 
to  the  better  judgment  and  superior  information  of  our 
readers,  from  whom  we  impatiently  expect  a  solution  of 
this  interesting  question.  The  editor  has  been  influenced 
solely  by  a  sense  of  its  poetical  merit. 

JA'FAR  SON  OF  'ULBAH,  OF  THE  BANU-L-H&RITH. 

The  Poet,  with  two  companions,  went  forth  to  plunder  the 
herds  of  'Ukail,  a  neighbour-tribe,  and  was  beset  on  his  way 
back  by  detached  parties  of  that  tribe  in  the  valley  of  Sahbal, 
whom  he  overcame  and  reached  home  safely. 

That  even  when  under  Sahbal's  twin  peaks  upon  us  drave 
the  horsemen  troop   after  troop,  and  the  foernen  pressed 

us  sore — 
They  said  to  us — "Two  things  lie  before  you:  now  must  ye 

choose — 
the  points  of  the  spears  couched  at  you,  or,  if  ye  will  not, 

chains  ". 
"We  answered  them — "Yea,  this  thing  may  fall  to  you  after 

fight, 
when  men  shall  be  left  on  ground,  and  none   shall  arise 

again ; 
But  we  know  not,  if  we  quail  before  the  assault  of  Death, 

how  much  may  be  left  of  life :  the  goal  is  too  dim  to  see  ". 
We  strode  to  the  strait  of  battle :    there  cleared  us  a  space 

around 
the  white  swords  in  our  right  hands  which  the  smiths  had 

furbished  fair. 

To  them  fell  the  edge  of  my  blade  on  that  day  of  Sahbal  dale, 
and  mine  was  the  share  thereof  whereover  my  fingers  closed. 

ED. 

[*  W.  H.  Ireland,  the  Shakespeare  forger. — ED.] 


52  POETBY   OF 

THE  DUKE  AND  THE  TAXING-MAN.* 
WHILOME  there  liv'd  in  fair  Englonde 

A  Duke  of  peerless  wealth, 
And  mickle  care  he  took  of  her 

Old  Constitution's  health. 
Full  fifty  thousand  pounds  and  more 

To  him  his  vassals  paid, 
But  ne  to  King,  ne  Countree,  he 

Would  yield  th'  assessment  made. 
The  taxing-man,  with  grim  visage 

Came  pricking  on  the  way  ; 
The  taxing-man,  with  wrothful  words, 

Thus  to  the  Duke  did  say  : 
"  Lord  Duke,  Lord  Duke,  thou'st  hid  from  me, 

As  sure  as  I'm  alive, 
Of  goodly  palfreys  seventeen, 

Of  varlets  twenty-five^ '. 
Then  out  he  drew  his  gray  goose  quill, 

Ydipp'd  in  ink  so  black, 
And  sorely  to  SURCHARGE  the  Duke, 

I  trowe,  he  was  ne  slack. 
Then  'gan  the  Duke  to  looken  pale, 

And  stared  as  one  astound, 
Twaie  coneynge  Clerks!  eftsoons  he  spies 

Sitting  their  board  around. 


[*  The  above  ballad  refers  to  an  attempt  by  FRANCIS,  fifth 
DUKE  OF  BEDFORD,  to  escape  the  payment  of  the  Assessed 
Taxes  upon  twenty-five  of  his  servants,  on  the  plea  that  as 
the  Helpers  did  not  wear  a  Livery,  and  were  engaged  by  the 
week,  they  were  not  liable  to  the  duty.  This  defence  was, 
however,  unsuccessful. — ED.] 

f  Twaie  coneynge  Clerics. — Coneynge  is  the  participle  of  the  verb 
to  lien  or  know.  It  by  no  means  imports  what  we  now  denomi- 
nate a  knowing  one :  on  the  contrary,  twaie  coneynye  clerks  means 
two  intelligent  and  disinterested  clergymen. 


THE  ANTI-JACOBIN.  53 

"  O  woe  is  me,"  then  cried  the  Duke, 

"  Ne  mortal  wight  but  errs  ! 
I'll  hie  to  yon  twaie  coneynge  Clerks, 

Yclept  Commissioners." 
The  Duke  he  hied  him  to  the  board, 

And  straight  'gan  for  to  say, 
"  A  seely  *  wight  I  am,  God  wot, 

Ne  ken  I  the  right  way. 
"  These  varlets  twenty-five  were  ne'er 

Liveried  in  white  and  red  ; 
Withouten  this,  what  signifie 

Wages,  and  board,  and  bed  ? 
"  And  by  St.  George,  that  stout  horseman, 

My  palfreys  seventeen, 
For  two  years,  or  perchance  for  three, 

I  had  forgotten  clean." 
"  Naie,"  quoth  the  Clerk,  "both  horse  and  foot 

To  hide  was  thine  intent, 
Ne  seely  wight  be  ye,  but  didst 

With  good  advisament.f 
"  Surcharge,  surcharge,  good  Taxing-man, 

Anon  our  seals  we  fix, 
Of  sterling  pounds,  Lord  Duke,  you  pay 

Three  hundred  thirty-six. "J 


*  Seely  is  evidently  the  original  of  the  modern  word  silly.  A 
seely  itright,  however,  by  no  means  imports  what  is  now  called  a 
silly  fellow,  but  means  a  man  of  simplicity  of  character,  devoid 
of  all  vanity,  and  of  any  strange,  ill-conducted  ambition,  which, 
if  successful,  would  immediately  be  fatal  to  the  man  who  in- 
dulged it. 

f  Good  advisament  means — cool  consideration. 

[J  FRANCIS,  fifth  DUKE  OF  BEDFORD,  died  after  a  severe  sur- 
gical operation,  March  2,  1802,  at  the  early  age  of  thirty-six. 
"  The  Duke  of  Bedford's  energetic  and  capacious  mind,"  says 


54  POETRY   OF 

EPIGEAM  ON  THE  PAEIS  LOAN,* 

CALLED 

THE  LOAN  UPON  ENGLAND. 
THE  Paris  cits,  a  patriotic  band, 
Advance  their  cash  on  British  freehold  land. 
But  let  the  speculating  rogues  beware  — 
They've  bought  the  skin,  but  who's  to  kill  the  bear  ? 

Lord  Ossory,  "his  enlarged  way  of  thinking,  and  elevated  senti- 
ments, together  with  the  habits  and  pursuits  of  his  life,  peculiarlj- 
qualified  him  for  his  high  station  and  princely  fortune.  He  was 
superior  to  bad  education  and  disadvantages  for  forming  his 
character,  and  turned  out  certainly  a  first-rate  man,  though  not 
free  from  imperfections.  His  uprightness  and  truth  were  un- 
equalled ;  his  magnanimity,  fortitude  and  consideration,  in  his 
last  moments,  taken  so  unprepared  as  he  was,  were  astonishing." 

On  the  16th  March,  C.  J.  Fox,  in  moving  for  a  new  writ  for 
the  borough  of  Tavistock,  vacated  by  Lord  John  Russell,  who 
had  succeeded  to  the  titles  and  estates  of  his  deceased  brother, 
took  occasion  to  pronounce  a  beautiful  and  glowing  eulogium 
on  his  departed  friend  and  firm  supporter. — ED.] 

[*  The  Anti-Jacobin  (in  No.  8)  thus  speaks  of  the  threatened 
invasion  of  this  country,  for  which  "  they  have  publicly  formed, 
and  (as  they  term  it)  organized  their  ARMY  OF  ENGLAND.  Its 
Advanced  Guard  is  to  be  formed  from  a  chosen  Corps  of  Ban- 
ditti, the  most  distinguished  for  Massacre  and  Plunder.  It  is 
to  be  preceded,  as  it  naturally  ought,  by  the  Genius  of  French 
Revolutionary  Liberty,  and  it  will  be  luelcomed,  as  they  tell  us, 
'  on  the  ensanguined  shores  of  Britain,  by  the  generous  friends 
of  Parliamentary  Eeform '.  In  the  interval,  however,  till  these 
golden  dreams  are  realized,  it  is  necessary  that  this  '  Army  of 
England,'  while  it  yet  remains  in  France,  should  be  fed,  paid, 
and  clothed.  For  this  purpose  a  new  and  separate  fund  is 
provided  (in  the  same  spirit  with  the  rest  of  their  measures), 
and  is  to  be  termed  '  THE  LOAN  OF  ENGLAND,'  to  be  raised  by 
anticipation  on  the  security  and  mortgage  of  all  the  Lands  and 
Property  of  this  Country.  This  gasconade,  which  sounds  too 
extravagant  for  reality,  is  nevertheless  seriously  announced  by 
a  message  from  the  Executive  Directory  ;  and  we  are  told  that 
the  Merchants  of  Paris  are  eagerly  offering  to  advance,  on  such 
a  security,  the  money  which  is  to  defray  the  expenses  of  the 
Expedition  against  this  country." — ED.] 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  55 


No.  IX. 

Jan.  8,  1798. 
ODE    TO    ANAECHY. 

BY   A  JACOBIN. 

(BEING  AN  IMITATION  OF  HORACE,  ODE  xxxv.  BOOK  i.) 
0  Diva,  gratum  quce  regis  Antium  ! 

GODDESS,  whose  dire  terrific  power 
Spreads  from  thy  much-loved  Gallia's  plains 
Where'er  her  blood-stain'd  ensigns  lower, 
Where'er  fell  Eapine  stalks,  or  barb'rous  Discord  reigns  ! 

Thou,  who  canst  lift  to  fortune's  height 
The  wretch  by  truth  and  virtue  scorn'd, 
And  crush  with  insolent  delight, 
All  whom  true  merit  rais'd,  or  noble  birth  adorn'd  ! 

Thee,  oft  the  murd'rous  band  implores, 
Swift  darting  on  its  hapless  prey : 
Thee,  wafted  from  fierce  Afric's  shores, 
The  Corsair  Chief  invokes  to  speed  him  on  his  way. 

Thee,  the  wild  Indian  Tribes  revere ; 
Thy  charms  the  roving  Arab  owns ; 
Thee,  kings,  thee  tranquil  nations  fear, 
The  bane  of  social  bliss,  the  foe  to  peaceful  thrones. 

For,  soon  as  thy  loud  trumpet  calls 
To  deadly  rage,  to  fierce  alarms, 
Just  Order's  goodly  fabric  falls, 
Whilst  the  mad  people  cries,  "To  arms !  to  arms !  " 


56  POETEY   OF 

"With  thee  Proscription,  child  of  strife, 
With  Death's  choice  implements,  is  seen, 
Her  Murderer's  gun,  Assassin's  knife, 
And,  "last  not  least  in  love,"  her  darling  Guillotine. 

Fond  Hope  is  thine, — the  hope  of  Spoil, 
And  Faith, — such  faith  as  ruffians  keep  : 
They  prosper  thy  destructive  toil, 
That  makes  the  Widow  mourn,  the  helpless  Orphan  weep. 

Then  false  and  hollow  friends  retire, 

Nor  yield  one  sigh  to  soothe  despair ; 

Whilst  crowds  triumphant  Vice  admire, 
Whilst  Harlots  shine  in  robes   that  deck'd  the  Great 
and  Fair. 

Guard  our  famed  Chief  to  Britain's  strand  ! 

Britain,  our  last,  our  deadliest  foe  : 

Oh,  guard  his  brave  associate  band  ! 
A  band  to  slaughter  train'd,  and  ' '  nursed  in  scenes  of 
woe  ". 

What  shame,  alas  !  one  little  Isle 

Should  dare  its  native  laws  maintain ! 

At  Gallia's  threats  serenely  smile, 
And,  scorning  her  dread  power,  triumphant  rule  the  main. 

For  this  have  guiltless  victims  died 

In  crowds  at  thy  ensanguined  shrine  ! 

For  this  has  recreant  Gallia's  pride 

O'erturned    Eeligion's    Fanes,    and    braved  .the   Wrath 
Divine ! 

What  Throne,  what  Altar,  have  we  spared 

To  spread  thy  power,  thy  joys  impart  ? 

Ah  !  then,  our  faithful  toils  reward  ! 
And  let  each  falchion  pierce  some  loyal  Briton's  heart. 


THE  ANTI-JACOBIN.  57 

[THE  FOLLOWING  is  A  TRANSLATION,  BY  DUNCOMBE,  OF 
HOEACE'S    ODE    TO    FORTUNE, 

Of  which  the  above  Ode  is  a  parochj. 
0  GODDESS,  whose  propitious  sway 
Thy  Antium's  favourite  sons  obey; 
Whose  voice  from  depth  of  woe  recalls 
The  wretch,  and  triumphs  turns  to  funerals ; 

From  Thee,  rich  crops  the  needy  swain 
Implores.     Thee,  sovereign  of  the  main, 
The  mariner  invokes,  who  braves 
In  a  Bithynian  bark  the  Cretan  waves ; 

Thee,  Scythians,  wandering  far  and  near, 
And  unrelenting  Dacians,  fear: 
The  warlike  sons  of  Italy ; 
Cities,  and  realms,  and  empires,  worship  Thee. 

Mothers  of  barbarous  monarchs  dread, 
And  purple  tyrants,  lest  thou  tread 
With  spurning  foot,  and  scatter  round 
The  sculptured  column  on  th'  encumbered  ground ; 

And  lest'  the  fickle  crowd  should  break 
Their  bonds ;    and  with  loud  clamours  wake 
The  peaceful  to  assert  their  right 
By  force  of  arms,  and  quell  usurping  might. 

Ruthless  necessity  prepares 
The  way  for  Thee ;   and  ever  bears 
Huge  nails  in  her  strong  hands  of  brass 
The  wedge,  the  hook,  and  lead's  hot  molten  mass. 

Thee  Hope  and  white  robed  Faith,  adore, 
So  rarely  found! — She,  when  no  more 
Thou  smil'st,  attends  the  fallen  great 
Stript  of  his  gay  attire  and  stately  seat. 

But  venal  crowds  and  harlots  fly: 
And,  if  the  flowing  casks  are  dry, 
When  to  the  dregs  the  wine  they  drink, 
From  friendship's  yoke  the  false  associates  shrink. 

Thy  aid  for  Caesar  Rome  implores, 
Conduct  him  safe  to  Britain's  shores, 
The  limits  of  the  world ;    and  lead 
Our  new-raised  bands  against  the  trembling  Mede. 


58  POETRY  OP 

Alas !   we  mourn  our  crimes,  our  scar 
And  brethren  slain  in  civil  wars : 
How  oft  have  Eoman  youth  embrued 
Their  savage  hands  in  streams  of  social  blood! 

What  has  this  Iron  Age  not  dared? 
What  Gods  revered  ?     What  Altars  spared  ? 
0  !  point  again  the  blunted  steel, 
And  let  the  Massagete  our  vengeance  feel! — ED.] 

THE  following  Song  is  recommended  to  be  sung  at  all 
Convivial  Meetings,  convened  for  the  purpose  of  opposing 
the  Assessed-Tax  Bill.  The  correspondent  who  has  trans- 
mitted it  to  us  informs  us  that  he  has  tried  it  with  great 
success  among  many  of  his  well-disposed  neighbours,  who 
had  been  at  first  led  to  apprehend  that  the  l-20th  part  of 
their  income  was  too  great  a  sacrifice  for  the  preservation 
of  the  remainder  of  their  property  from  French  Confiscation. 

You  have  heard  of  KEWBELL,* 

That  demon  of  hell, 

And  of  B  ARRAS,  his  brother  Director ; 

[*  The  above  verses  refer  to  the  memorable  events  of  the 
18th  Fructidor,  Sept.  4,  1797  (the  model  of  Prince  Louis 
Napole'on's  coup  d'etat,  Dec.  2,  1851),  when  Bewbell,  Barras, 
and  Larevelliere-Lepaux,  on  the  plea  that  the  Republic  was  in 
danger,  got  rid  of  their  fellow-directors,  Carnot  (grandfather  to 
the  present  President  of  the  French  Republic)  and  Barthelemy, 
who  were  replaced  by  Merlin  and  Francois  de  Neufchateau, 
dispersed  by  military  force  the  members  of  the  Five  Hundred 
and  the  Ancients,  fifty-three  of  whom  were  condemned  to 
transportation — banished  the  editors,  &c.,  of  forty-two  news- 
papers— annulled  the  elections  of  forty-eight  departments — 
and  effected  other  arbitrary  measures  without  opposition.  The 
springs  of  the  movement  were  throughout  directed  by  Buona- 
parte, seconded  by  Hoche  and  Augereau.  This  event  was  the 
true  era  of  the  commencement  of  military  despotism  in  France. 
But  THIERS  considers  "the  Directory  by  these  means  pre- 
vented civil  war,  and  substituted  an  arbitrary  but  necessary 
act  of  power,  carried  out  with  energy,  but  with  all  the  mildness 
and  moderation  that  revolutionary  times  would  allow  ". — ED.] 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  59 

Of  the  canting  LEPAUX, 
And  that  scoundrel  MOKEAU, 

Who  betray'd  his  old  friend  and  protector. 

Would  you  know  how  these  friends, 
For  their  own  private  ends, 

Would  subvert  our  Keligion  and  Throne  ? — 
Do  you  doubt  of  their  skill 
To  change  Laws  at  their  will  ? — 

You  shall  hear  how  they  treated  their  own. 

'Twas  their  pleasure  to  look, 
In  a  little  blue  book, 

At  the  Code  of  their  famed  legislation, 
That  with  truth  they  might  say, 
In  the  space  of  one  day 

They  had  broke  every  Law  of  the  Nation. 

The  first  law  that  they  see, 
Is  "  the  Press  si  tall  be  free!  " 

The  next  is  "the  Trial  by  Jury  ": 
Then,  "  the  People's  free  Choice  "; 
Then,  "  the  Members'  free  Voice" — 

When  EEWBELL  exclaim 'd  in  a  fury — 

"  On  a  method  we'll  fall 
For  infringing  them  all — 

We'll  seize  on  each  Printer  and  Member  : 
No  period  so  fit 
For  a  desperate  hit, 

As  our  bloody  month  of  September. 

"We'll  annul  each  election 
Which  wants  our  correction, 
And  name  our  own  creatures  instead. 


60  POETBY   OF 

When  once  we've  our  will, 
No  blood  we  will  spill, 

(But  let  CARNOT  be  knock'd  on  the  head). 

"  To  Rocliefort  we'll  drive 
Our  victims  alive, 

And  as  soon  as  on  board  we  have  got  'em, 
Since  we  destine  the  ship 
For  no  more  than  one  trip, 

We  can  just  make  a  hole  in  the  bottom. 

"  By  this  excellent  plan, 
On  the  true  Right*  of  Man, 

When  we've  founded  our  fifth  Revolution, 
Though  England's  our  foe, 
An  army  shall  go 

To  improve  HER  corrupt  Constitution. 

"  We'll  address  to  the  Nation 
A  fine  Proclamation 

With  offers  of  friendship  so  warm : 
Who  can  give  BUONAPAKTE 
A  welcome  so  hearty 

As  the  friends  of  a  THOROUGH  REFORM  ?  " 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  61 


No.  X. 

Jan.  15,  1798. 

FOB  the  two  following  poems  we  are  indebted  to  un- 
known correspondents.  They  could  not  have  reached  us 
at  a  more  seasonable  period. 

The  former,  we  trust,  describes  the  feelings  common 
to  every  inhabitant  of  this  country.  The  second,  we 
know  too  well,  is  expressive  of  the  sentiments  of  our 
enemies. 

LINES, 

WRITTEN  AT  THE  CLOSE  OF  THE  YEAR  1797. 

LOUD  howls  the  storm  along  the  neighbouring  shore ; 

BRITAIN  indignant  hears  the  frantic  roar : 

Her  generous  sons  pour  forth  on  every  side, 

Firm  in  their  country's  cause — their  country's  pride  ! 

See  wild  Invasion  threats  this  envied  land : 

Swift  to  defend  her,  springs  each  Social  Band  : 

Her  white  rocks  echoing  to  their  cheerful  cry, 

"  GOD  AND  OUR  KING!" — "  ENGLAND  AND  VICTORY  !  " 

Yes  !  happy  BRITAIN,  on  thy  tranquil  coast 
No  trophies  mad  Philosophy  shall  boast ! 
Though  thy  disloyal  sons,  a  feeble  band, 
Sound  the  loud  blast  of  treason  through  the  land ; 
Scoff  at  thy  dangers  with  unnatural  mirth, 
And  execrate  the  soil  which  gave  them  birth; 
With  jaundiced  eye  thy  splendid  triumphs  view, 
And  give  to  FRANCE  the  palm  to  BRITAIN  due  : 


62  POETRY   OF 

Or, — when  loud  strains  of  gratulation  ring,* 
And  lowly  bending  to  the  ETERNAL  KING, 
Thy  SOVEREIGN  bids  a  nation's  praise  arise 
In  grateful  incense  to  the  fav'ring  skies — 
Cast  o'er  each  solemn  scene  a  scornful  glance, 
And  only  sigh  for  ANARCHY  and  FRANCE. 

Yes !  unsupported  Treason's  standard  falls, 
Sedition  vainly  on  her  children  calls, 
While  Cities,  Cottages,  and  Camps  contend, 
Their  King,  their  Laws,  their  Country  to  defend.f 

Eaise,  BRITAIN,  raise  thy  sea-encircled  head ; 
Bound  the  wide  world  behold  thy  glory  spread ; 
Firm  as  thy  guardian  oaks  thou  still  shalt  stand, 
The  dread  and  wonder  of  each  hostile  land ; 

[  *  Alluding  to  the  National  Thanksgiving  for  the  three  great 
naval  victories  achieved  by  Lords  Howe,  St.  Vincent,  and 
Duncan.  On  this  occasion  the  King  and  Queen,  with  their 
family,  the  Houses  of  Lords  and  Commons,  &c.,  went  in  pro- 
cession to  St.  Paul's,  where  Divine  Service  was  performed. 
The  Government  Papers  attributed  to  the  Opposition  Press  a 
desire  to  throw  discredit  on  this  proceeding.  "The  conse- 
quence of  the  Procession  to  St.  Paul's  "  (says  the  Morning  Post, 
of  Dec.  25)  "was,  that  one  man  returned  thanks  to  the  Almighty, 
and  one  woman  was  kicked  TO  DEATH." — ED.] 

[f  Mary  Frampton,  in  her  journal  (Dec.  20,  1797),  gives  a 
lively  account  of  the  King's  attendance  at  St.  Paul's  for 
Duncan's  Victory  on  the  llth  Oct.  "The  King,"  she  says, 
"  stopped  under  the  dome,  and  conversed  for  some  time  with 
Lord  Duncan  and  the  sailors ;  and,  to  the  great  scandal  of  good 
church-goers,  did  not  hold  his  tongue  for  any  considerable  time 
together  during  the  service.  .  .  .  Pitt  was  attacked  at  Temple 
Bar  by  three  ruffians,  who  rushed  from  the  mob  and  seized 
upon  the  door  of  his  carriage  undoubtedly  with  an  intent  to 
drag  him  out,  but  three  of  the  Light  Horse  Volunteers  rode  up, 
and  backing  their  horses  against  them,  sent  them  head  over 
heels  to  the  place  from  whence  they  came,  rather  faster  than 
they  ventured  out."  Page  99. — ED.] 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  63 

While  the  dire  fiends  of  discord  idly  rave, 

And,  mad  with  anguish,  curse  the  severing  wave. 

QUEEN  of  the  OCEAN,  lo  !  she  smiles  serene, 
'Mid  the  deep  horrors  of  the  dreadful  scene ; 
With  heartfelt  piety  to  Heav'n  she  turns — 
From  Heav'n  the  flame  of  British  courage  burns — 
She  dreads  no  power  but  His  who  rules  the  ball, 
At  whose  "  great  bidding  "  empires  rise  and  fall ; 
In  HIM,  on  peaceful  plain,  or  tented  field, 
She  trusts,  secure  in  His  protecting  shield — 
GALLIA,  thy  threats  she  scorns — BRITAIN  SHALL  NEVER 

YIELD'  AN  ENGLISHWOMAN. 


TRANSLATION    OF    THE    NEW    SONG 

OF   THE 

"AEMY    OF    ENGLAND". 

WRITTEN    BY   THE    CI-DEVANT   BISHOP    OF   AUTUN.* 

WITH  NOTES  BY  THE  TRANSLATOR. 

GOOD  Republicans  all, 
The  Directory's  call 

Invites  you  to  visit  JOHN  BULL  ; 
Oppress'd  by  the  rod 
Of  a  King,  and  a  God,t 

The  cup  of  his  misery's  full. 

[*  PRINCE  TALLEYRAND. — ED.] 

f  GENERAL  DANICAN,  in  his  Memoirs,  tells  us,  that  while  he 
was  in  command,  a  felon,  who  had  assumed  the  name  of  Brutus, 
chief  of  a  revolutionary  tribunal  at  Rennes,  said  to  his  colleagues, 
on  Good  Friday,  "  Brothers,  we  must  put  to  death  this  day,  at 
the  same  hour  the  counter-revolutionist  Christ  died,  that  young 
devotee  who  was  lately  arrested  " :  and  this  young  lady  was 
guillotined  accordingly,  and  her  corpse  treated  with  every 
possible  species  of  indecent  insult,  to  the  infinite  amusement  of  a 
vast  multitude  of  spectators. 


64  POETRY   OF 

Old  JOHNNY  shall  see 
What  makes  a  man  FBEE  ; 

Not  parchments,  nor  Statutes  on  Paper ; 
And  stripp'd  of  his  riches, 
Great  Charter,  and  breeches, 

Shall  cut  a  FBEE  Citizen's  caper. 

Then  away,  let  us  over 
To  Deal,  or  to  Dover — 

We  laugh  at  his  talking  so  big ; 
He's  pamper'd  with  feeding, 
And  wants  a  sound  bleeding — 

Par  Dicn  !  he  shall  bleed  like  a  pig ! 

JOHN,  tied  to  the  stake, 
A  grand  baiting  will  make, 

When  worried  by  mastiffs  of  France ; 
What  EEPUBLICAN  FUN, 
To  see  his  blood  run, 

As  at  Lyons,  La  Vendee,  and  Nantz!* 

*  The  reader  will  find  in  the  works  of  PETER  PORCUPINE  [W. 
COBBETT]  (a  spirited  and  instructive  writer)  an  ample  and 
satisfactory  commentary  on  this  and  the  following  stanza. 
The  French  themselves  inform  us,  that  by  the  several  modes 
of  destruction  here  alluded  to,  upwards  of  30,000  persons  were 
butchered  at  Lyons,  and  this  once  magnificent  city  almost 
levelled  to  the  ground,  by  the  command  of  a  wretched  actor 
(COLLOT  D'HERBOIS),  whom  they  had  formerly  hissed  from  the 
stage.  From  the  same  authorities  we  learn,  that  at  Nantz 
27,000  persons,  of  both  sexes,  were  murdered ;  chiefly  by 
drowning  them  in  plugged  boats.  The  waters  of  the  Loire 
became  putrid,  and  were  forbidden  to  be  drunk,  by  the  savages 
who  conducted  the  massacre: — that  at  Paris  150,000,  and  in 
La  Vende'e  300,000  persons  were  destroyed. — Upon  the  whole, 
the  French  themselves  acknowledge,  that  TWO  MILLIONS  of 
human  beings  (exclusive  of  the  military)  have  been  sacrificed 
to  the  principles  of  EQUALITY  and  the  BIGHTS  OF  MAN  :  250,000 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  65 

With  grape-shot  discharges, 
And  plugs  in  his  barges, 

With  National  Razors  good  store, 
We'll  pepper  and  shave  him, 
And  in  the  Thames  lave  him — 

How  sweetly  he'll  bellow  and  roar  ! 

What  the  villain  likes  worse, 
We'll  vomit  his  Purse, 

And  make  it  the  guineas  disgorge ; 
For  your  RAPHAELS  and  EUBENS 
We  would  not  give  two-pence ; 

Stick,  stick  to  the  PICTURES  OP  GEOKGE. 

No  Venus  of  stone, 

But  of  good  flesh  and  bone, 

Will  do  for  a  true  Democrat ; 
When  weary  with  slaughter, 
With  JOHN'S  Wife  and  Daughter, 

We'll  join  in  a  little  chit-chat. 


of  these  are  stated  to  be  WOMEN,  and  30,000  CHILDREN.  In  this 
last  number,  however,  they  do  not  include  the  unborn ;  nor 
those  who  started  from  the  bodies  of  their  agonizing  parents, 
and  were  stuck  upon  the  bayonets  of  those  very  men  who  are 
now  to  compose  the  "ARMY  OF  ENGLAND,"  amidst  the  most 
savage  acclamations. 

[At  the  beginning  of  the  revolution,  some  companies  of 
children,  called  Bonsbons,  were  dressed  and  drilled  as  National 
Guards,  as  a  compliment  to  the  Dauphin,  who  to  please  the 
Parisians  sometimes  donned  that  uniform.  Similar  companies 
were  afterwards  formed  in  Brittany,  and  employed  to  shoot 
those  poor  wretches  whom  the  two  guillotines  could  not 
dispatch  in  sufficient  numbers  ! — Biog.  Univ.,  art.  St.  Andri. 
—ED.] 

5 


66  POETRY   OF 

The  Shop-keeping  hoard, 
The  Tenant  and  Lord, 

And  the  Merchants,*  are  excellent  prey  : 
At  our  cannon's  first  thunder, 
Rape,  pillage,  and  plunder 

The  Order  shall  be  of  the  day. 

French  fortunes  and  lives, 
French  daughters  and  wives, 

H&vefive  honest  men  to  defend  'em  ! 
And  BAEKAS  and  Co. 
When  to  England  we  go, 

Will  kindly  take  JOHN'S  in  commendam. 

*  At  Lyons,  JABOGUES,  the  second  murderer  (the  Actor  being 
the  first),  in  his  speech  to  the  Democratic  Society,  used  these 
words — "  Down  with  the  edifices  raised  for  the  profit  or  the 
pleasure  of  the  rich;  down  with  them  ALL.  COMMERCE  and 
ARTS  are  useless  to  a  warlike  people,  and  are  the  destruction  of 
that  SUBLIME  EQUALITY  which  France  is  determined  to  spread 
over  the  globe. ' '  Such  are  the  consequences  of  EADICAL  KEFORM  ! 
Let  any  merchant,  farmer,  or  landlord ;  let  any  husband  or 
father  consider  this,  and  then  say,  "Shall  we  or  shall  we  not 
contribute  a  moderate  sum,  IN  PROPORTION  TO  OUR  ANNUAL  EXPEN- 
DITURE, for  the  purpose  of  preserving  ourselves  from  the  fate  of  Lyons, 
La  Vendee,  and  Nantz  ?  " 

STYPTIC. 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIX.  67 


No.  XL 

Jan.  22,  1798. 

WE  have  said  in  another  part  of  our  paper  of  this  day, 
"  that  though  we  shall  never  begin  an  attack,  we  shall 
always  be  prompt  to  repel  it  ". 

On  this  principle,  we  could  not  pass  over  in  silence  the 
EPISTLE  TO  THE  EDITORS  OF  THE  Anti-Jacobin,  which  ap- 
peared in  the  Morning  Chronicle  of  Wednesday,  and  from 
which  we  have  fortunately  been  furnished  with  a  motto 
for  this  day's  paper. 

We  assure  the  author  of  the  epistle,  that  the  answer 
which  we  have  here  the  honour  to  address  to  him,  con- 
tains our  genuine  and  undisguised  sentiments  upon  the 
merits  of  the  poem. 

Our  conjectures  respecting  the  authors  and  abettors  of 
this  performance  may  possibly  be  as  vague  and  unfounded 
as  theirs  are  with  regard  to  the  EDITORS  of  the  Anti-Jaco- 
bin. We  are  sorry  that  we  cannot  satisfy  their  curiosity 
upon  this  subject — but  we  have  little  anxiety  for  the  gra- 
tification of  our  own. 

It  is  hardly  to  be  expected,  that  the  character  of  the 
epistle  should  be  taken  on  trust  from  the  editors  of  this 
volume ;  it  is  thought  best,  therefore,  to  subjoin  the 
whole  performance  as  it  originally  appeared — a  mode  of 
hostility  obviously  the  most  fair,  and  in  respect  to  the 
combatants  in  the  cause  of  Jacobinism,  by  much  the 
most  effectual.  They  are  always  best  opposed  by  the 
arms  which  they  themselves  furnish.  Jacobinism  shines 
by  its  own  light. 


68  POETRY    OF 

To  the  respectable  names  which  the  author  of  the  fol- 
lowing address  has  thought  proper  to  connect  with  the 
"  ANTI- JACOB  IN,"  no  apology  is  made  for  thus  preserving 
this  otherwise  perishable  specimen  of  dulness  and  defa- 
mation. He  who  has  been  reviled  by  the  enemies  of  the 
"  ANTI-JACOBIN,"  must  feel  that  principles  are  attributed 
to  him,  of  which  he  need  not  be  ashamed :  and  when  the 
abuse  is  conveyed  in  such  a  strain  of  feebleness  and  folly, 
he  must  see  that  those  principles  excite  animosity  only 
in  quarters  of  which  he  need  not  be  afraid. 

It  is  only  necessary  to  add,  what  is  most  conscientiously 
the  truth,  that  this  production,  such  as  it  is,  is  by  far  the 
best  of  all  the  attacks  that  the  combined  wits  of  the  cause 
have  been  able  to  muster  against  the  "  ANTI- JACOBIN  ". 

EPISTLE  TO  THE  EDITOES  OF  THE  ANTI-JACOBIN.* 

Hie  Niger  est ;  Jiunc  tu,  Romane,  caveto  ! 


To  tell  what  gen'rals  did,  or  statesmen  spoke, 
To  teach  the  world  by  truths,  or  please  by  joke ; 
To  make  mankind  grow  bold  as  they  peruse, 
Judge  on  existing  things,  and — weigh  the  news ; 
For  this  a  PAPER  first  display'd  its  page, 
Commanding  tears  and  smiles  through  ev'ry  age ! 

Hail,  justly  famous  !  who  in  modern  days 
With  nobler  flight  aspire  to  higher  praise ; 
Hail,  justly  famous !  whose  discerning  eyes 
At  once  detect  MISTAKES,  MIS-STATEMENTS,  LIES  ;  10 

Hail,  justly  famous  !  who  with  fancy  blest, 
Use  fiend-like  virulence  for  sportive  jest ; 
"Who  only  bark  to  serve  your  private  ends — 
Patrons  of  Prejudice,  Corruption's  friends  ! 
Who  hurl  your  venoni'd  darts  at  well-earned  fame — 
Virtue  your  hate,  and  Calumny  your  aim  ! 

[*  Probably  written  by  the  Rt.  Hon.  John  Courtnay.] 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  69 

"Whoe'er  ye  are,  all  hail ! — whether  the  skill 
Of  youthful  CANNING  guides  the  ranc'rous  quill ; 
With  powers  mechanic  far  above  his  age, 
Adapts  the  paragraph  and  fills  the  page ;  20 

Measures  the  column,  mends  whate'er's  amiss, 
Rejects  THAT  letter,  and  accepts  of  THIS  ; 
Or  HAMMOND,  leaving  his  official  toil, 
O'er  this  great  work  consume  the  midnight  oil — 
Bills,  passports,  letters,  for  the  Miises  quit, 
And  change  dull  business  for  amusing  wit : — 
His  life  of  labour  at  one  gasp  is  o'er, 
His  books  forgot — his  desk  beloved  no  more  ! 
Proceed  to  prop  the  Ministerial  cause ; 
See  consequential  MORPETH  nods  applause  ;  30 

In  ev'ry  fair  one's  ears  at  balls  and  plays 
The  gentle  GEANVILLE  LEVESON  whispers  praise : 
Well-judging  Patrons,  whom  such  works  can  please ; 
Great  works,  well  worthy  Patrons  such  as  these  ! 


Who  heard,  not  raptured,  the  poetic  Sage 
Who  sung  of  Gallia  in  a  headlong  rage, 
And  blandly  drew  with  no  uncourtly  grace 
The  simple  manners  of  our  English  race — 
Extoll'd  great  DUNCAN,  and,  supremely  brave, 
Whelm'd  BUONAPARTE'S  pride  beneath  the  wave  ?  40 

I  swear  by  all  the  youths  that  MALMESBURY  chose, 
By  ELLIS'  sapient  prominence  of  nose, 
By  MORPETH'S  gait,  important,  proud,  and  big — 
By  LEVESON  GOWER'S  crop-imitating  wig, 
That,  could  the  pow'rs  which  in  those  numbers  shine, 
Could  that  warm  spirit  animate  my  line, 
Your  glorious  deeds  which  humbly  I  rehearse — 
Your  deeds  should  live  immortal  as  my  verse  ; 
And,  while  they  wonder'd  whence  I  caught  my  flame, 
Your  sons  should  blush  to  read  their  fathers'  shame  !  50 


Proceed,  great  men ! — your  office  is  not  done ; 
Proceed  with  what  you  have  so  well  begun : 
Load  Fox  (if  you  by  PITT  would  be  preferr'd), 
With  ev'ry  guilt  that  KENYON  ever  heard — 
Adult'rer,  gamester,  drunkard,  cheat  and  knave, 
A  factious  demagogue  and  pension'd  slave  ! 


70  POETEY    OF 

Loose,  loose  your  cry — with  ire  satiric  flash : 

Let  all  the  Opposition  feel  your  lash  ; 

And  prove  them  to  these  hot  and  partial  times, 

A  combination  of  the  worst  of  crimes !  60 

But  softer  numbers  softer  subjects  fit : 
In  liquid  phrases  thrill  the  praise  of  PITT  ; 
Extol  in  eulogies  of  candid  truth 
The  Virgin  Minister — the  Heav'n-born  Youth ; 
The  greatest  gift  that  fate  to  England  gave, 
Created  to  support  and  born  to  save ; 
Prompt  to  supply  whate'er  his  country  lacks  — 
Skilful  to  GAG,  and  knowing  how  to  TAX  ! 
With  him  companions  meet  in  order  stand — 
A  firm,  compact,  and  well-appointed  band ;  70 

Skill'd  to  advance  or  to  retreat,  DUNDAS, 
And  bear  thick  battle  on  his  front  of  brass ; 
GRENVILLE  with  pond'rous  head,  which  match'd  we  find 
By  equal  ponderosity  behind. 

But  hold,  my  Muse ;  nor  farther  these  pursue  I — 
Great  Editors,  we  have  digress'd  from  you ; 
From  you,  to  whom  our  trivial  lays  belong, 
From  you,  the  sole  inspirers  of  our  song  ! 
Proceed : — urge  on  the  same  vindictive  strain, 
To  gain  the  applauses  of  great  MALMESBXJRY'S  train ;     80 
With  jaundiced  eyes  the  noblest  patriot  scan : 
Proceed — be  more  opprobrious  if  you  can ; 
Proceed — be  more  abusive  ev'ry  hour ; 
To  be  more  stupid  is  beyond  your  power. 

Line  10. — [One  of  the  distinguishing  features  of  the  "  ANTI-JACOBIN  "  was 
their  articles  devoted  to  an  exposure  of  the  "  Lies,  Misrepresentations,  and 
Mistakes  "  of  the  Opposition  Press. — ED.] 

Line  23. — [George  Hammond,  at  this  time  Canning's  colleague  as  Under- 
secretary of  State  ;  the  latter  being  succeeded  by  John  Hookham  Frere.— ED.] 

Line  30.— [Lord  Morpeth,  son  of  the  (fifth)  Karl  of  Carlisle  who  was  satirized 
by  Byron  in  "English  Bards  and  Scotch  Reviewers". — ED.] 

Line  32.— [George  Granville  Leveson  Gower,  eldest  son  of  the  first  Marquis 
of  Stafford,  born  in  1758,  became  second  Marquis  in  1803,  and  created  Duke  of 
Sutherland  in  1833.  He  was  one  of  Canning's  intimate  college  companions. — 
ED.] 

Line  41. — [James  Harris,  first  Earl  of  Malmesbury,  one  of  the  most  distin- 
guished of  English  diplomatists.  His  "  Diaries  and  Correspondence,"  pub- 
lished by  his  grandson,  the  third  Earl,  throw  much  light  on  the  transactions  of 
the  eventful  period  to  which  they  refer. — ED.] 

Line  42.— [George  Ellis,  the  accomplished  editor  of  the  "Specimens  of  the 
Early  English  Poets,  and  of  Early  English  Metrical  Romances,"  &c.  In  early 
life  he  contributed  to  the  Rolliad,  being  the  author  of  Nos.  1  and  2,  in  Part  I., 


THE  ANTI-JACOBIN.  71 

and  Nos.  1  and  2,  in  Part  II.  Of  the  Political  Eclogues  he  wrote  the  one  entitled 
"  Charles  Jenkinson  ".  In  the  Probationary  Odes,  he  wrote  No.  II.  "  Ode  on  the 
New  Year,  by  Lord  Mulgrave,"  and  No.  XX.  "Irregular  Ode  for  the  King's 
Birth  Day,  by  Sir  G.  Howard  ".  Afterwards,  however,  ne  became  much  attached 
to  Pitt,  and  acted  as  Secretary  to  Lord  Malmesbury  during  his  unsuccessful 
negotiations  with  the  French  for  peace,  at  Lisle,  1797.  Horace  Walpole  thus 
alludes  to  him,  in  a  letter  of  24th  June,  1783  :  "English  people  are  in  fashion  at 
Versailles.  A  Mr.  Ellis,  who  wrote  some  pretty  verses  at  Bath  two  or  three 
years  ago,  is  a  favourite  there."  Sir  Walter  Scott  addressed  to  him  Canto  V.  of 
"  Marmion".  He  died  in  1815,  aged  70. — ED.] 

Line  71. — [The  Rt.  Hon.  Henry  Dundas  (afterwards  created  Viscount  Mel- 
ville), in  the  Commons,  and  Lord  Grenville  in  the  Lords,  were  Pitt's  most 
efficient  supporters.— El).] 


TO  THE  AUTHOR  OF  THE  EPISTLE  TO  THE 
EDITORS  OF  THE  ANTI-JACOBIN. 

Nostrorum  sermonum  candide  judex  ! 

BARD  of  the  borrow'd  lyre  !  to  whom  belong 
The  shreds  and  remnants  of  each  hackney'd  song ; 
Whose  verse  thy  friends  in  vain  for  wit  explore, 
And  count  but  one  good  line  in  eighty -four ! 
Whoe'er  thou  art,  all  hail !     Thy  bitter  smile 
Gilds  our  dull  page,  and  cheers  our  humble  toil ! 

For  yet — though  firm  and  fearless  in  the  cause 
Of  pure  Keligion,  Liberty,  and  Laws, — 
Though  TRUTH  approved,  though  fav'ring  VIRTUE  smiled, 
Some  doubts  remained  :  WE  yet  were  unreviled.  10 

Thanks  to  thy  zeal !  those  doubts  at  length  are  o'er ! 
Thy  suffrage  crowns  our  wish  ! — WE  ask  no  more 
To  stamp  with  sterling  worth  each  honest  line, 
Than  Censure,  cloth'd  in  vapid  Verse  like  thine  ! 

But  say — in  full  blown  honours  dost  thou  sit 
'Midst  BROOKES'S  ELDERS  on  the  BENCH  OF  WIT, 
Where  HARE,  chief-justice,  frames  the  stern  decree, 


72  POETEY    OF 

While  with  their  learned  brother,  sages  three, 

FlTZPATEICK,  TOWNSHEND,  SHEEIDAN,  agree? 

Or  art  thou  One — THE  PAETY'S  flattered  fool,  20 

Train'd  in  Debrett's,  or  Ridgways  civic  school — 
One,  who  with  rant  and  fustian  daily  wears, 
Well-natured  KICHABDSON  !  thy  patient  ears ; — 
Who  sees  nor  Taste  nor  Genius  in  these  times, 
Save  PAEE'S   luzz  prose,*   and  COUETENAY'S  kidnapp'd 
rhymes  ?  t 

*  Buzz  PROSE. — The  learned  reader  will  perceive  that  this  is 
an  elegant  metonymy,  by  which  the  quality  belonging  to  the 
outside  of  the  head  is  transferred  to  the  inside.  Buzz  is  an 
epithet  usually  applied  to  a  large  wig.  It  is  here  used  for 
swelling,  burly,  bombastic  writing. 

There  is  a  picture  of  HOGARTH'S  (the  Election  Ball,  we 
believe),  in  which  there  are  a  number  of  Hats  thrown  together 
in  one  corner  of  the  room ;  and  it  is  remarked  as  a  peculiar 
excellence  that  there  is  not  a  Hat  among  them  of  which  you 
cannot  to  a  certainty  point  out  the  owner  among  the  figures 
dancing,  or  otherwise  distributed  through  the  picture. 

We  remember  to  have  seen  an  experiment  of  this  kind  tried 
at  one  of  the  Universities  with  the  wig  and  writings  here  alluded 
to.  A  page  taken  from  the  most  happy  and  elaborate  part  of 
the  writings  was  laid  upon  a  table  in  a  barber's  shop,  round 
which  a  number  of  wigs  of  different  descriptions  and  dimensions 
were  suspended,  and  among  them  that  of  the  Author  in  question. 
It  was  required  of  a  young  student,  after  reading  a  few  sentences 
in  the  page,  to  point  out  among  the  wigs  that  which  must  of 
necessity  belong  to  the  Head  in  which  such  sentences  had  been 
engendered.  The  experiment  succeeded  to  a  miracle.  The 
learned  reader  will  now  see  all  the  beauty  and  propriety  of  the 
metonymy. 

f  KIDNAPP'D  RHYMES. — Kidnapp'd  implies  something  more 
than  stolen.  It  is,  according  to  an  expression  of  Mr.  Sheridan's 
(in  the  "  Critic  "),  using  other  people's  "  thoughts  as  gipsies  do  stolen 
children — disfiguring  them,  to  make  them  pass  for  their  own  ". 

This  is  a  serious  charge  against  an  author,  and  ought  to  be 
well  supported.  To  the  proof  then  ! 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  73 

Or  is  it  he, — the  youth,  whose  daring  soul 

With  half  a  mission  sought  the  Frozen  Pole ; — 

And  then,  returning  from  the  unfinish'd  work, 

Wrote  half  a  letter, — to  demolish  BURKE  ? 

Studied  Burke's  manner, — aped  his  forms  of  speech ;    30 


In  an  Ode  of  the  late  LORD  NUGENT'S  are  the  following 
spirited  lines : 

"  Though  CATO  liv'd — though  TULLY  spoke — * 
Though  BRUTUS  dealt  the  godlike  stroke, 
Yet  perish'd  fated  ROME  ! " 

The  author  above  mentioned  saw  these  lines,  and  liked  them 
— as  well  he  might ;  and  as  he  had  a  mind  to  write  about  Rome 
himself,  he  did  not  scruple  to  enlist  them  into  his  service ;  btit 
he  thought  it  right  to  make  a  small  alteration  in  their  appear- 
ance, which  he  managed  thus.  Speaking  of  Rome,  he  says  it  is 
the  place 

"Wliere  CATO  liv'd":— 

A  sober  truth !  which  gets  rid  at  once  of  all  the  poetry  and 
spirit  of  the  original,  and  reduces  the  sentiment  from  an 
example  of  manners,  virtue,  patriotism,  from  the  vita  exemplar 
dedit  of  LORD  NUGENT,  to  a  mere  question  of  inhabitancy.  Ubi 
habitavit  Cato — where  he  was  an  inhabitant-householder,  paying 
scot  and  lot,  and  had  a  house  on  the  right-hand  side  of  the  way, 
as  you  go  down  Esquiline  Hill,  just  opposite  to  the  poulterer's. 
But  to  proceed — 

"  Where  CATO  liv'd ;  wliere  TULLY  spoke, 
Where  BRUTUS  dealt  the  godlike  stroke — 
— By  which  his  glory  rose!!!" 

The  last  line  is  not  borrowed. 

We  question  whether  the  history  of  modern  literature  can 
produce  an  instance  of  a  theft  so  shameless,  and  turned  to  so 
little  advantage. 

[*  Horace  Walpole,  in  a  letter  to  Hannah  More,  quotes  one  word  of  these 
verses  incorrectly,  writing  :— "  Though  Cato  died,"  an  error  which  P.  Cunning- 
ham allows  to  [Miss,  as  also  another,  that  Mr. — instead  of  Lord— Nugent  wrote 
them.— ED.] 


74  POETRY   OF 

Though  when  he  strives  his  metaphors  to  reach, 

One  luckless  slip  his  meaning  overstrains, 

And  loads  the  blunderbuss  with  BEDFORD'S  brains.* 

*  And  loads  the  blunderbuss  with  BEDFORD'S  brains. — This  line 
is  wholly  unintelligible  without  a  note.  And  we  are  afraid  the 
note  will  be  wholly  incredible,  unless  the  reader  can  fortunately 
procure  the  book  to  which  it  refers. 

In  the  "  Part  of  a  Letter,"  which  was  published  by  MR.  ROBT. 
ADAIR,  in  answer  to  MR.  BURKE'S  "Letter  to  the  D.  of  B.," 
nothing  is  so  remarkable  as  the  studious  imitation  of  Mr. 
Burke' s  style. 

His  vehemence,  and  his  passion,  and  his  irony,  his  wild 
imagery,  his  far-sought  illustrations,  his  rolling  and  lengthened 
periods,  and  the  short  quick  pointed  sentences  in  which  he 
often  condenses  as  much  wisdom  and  wit  as  others  would  ex- 
pand through  pages,  or  through  volumes,— all  these  are  care- 
fully kept  in  view  by  his  opponent,  though  not  always  very 
artificially  copied  or  applied. 

But  imitators  are  liable  to  be  led  strangely  astray ;  and  never 
was  there  an  instance  of  a  more  complete  mistake  of  a  plain 
meaning,  than  that  which  this  line  is  intended  to  illustrate — a 
mistake  no  less  than  that  of  a  coffin  for  a  corpse.  This  is  hard 
to  believe  or  to  comprehend— but  you  shall  hear. 

MR.  BURKE,  in  one  of  his  publications,  had  talked  of  the 
French  "  unplumbiny  the  dead  in  order  to  destroy  the  living," — 
by  which  he  intended,  without  doubt,  not  metaphorically,  but 
literally,  "stripping  the  dead  of  their  LEADEN  COFFINS,  and  then 
making  tJiem  (not  tlie  DEAD  but  the  COFFINS)  into  bullets".  A 
circumstance  perfectly  notorious  at  the  time  the  book  was 
written. 

But  this  does  not  satisfy  our  author.  He  determines  to 
retort  MR.  BURKE'S  own  words  upon  him ;  and  unfortunately 
"  reaching  at  a  metaphor,"  where  MR.  BURKE  only  intended  a 
fact,  he  falls  into  the  little  mistake  above  mentioned,  and  by  a 
stroke  of  his  pen  transmutes  the  illustrious  HEAD  of  the  house 
of  RUSSELL  into  a  metal,  to  which  it  is  not  for  us  to  say  how 
near  or  how  remote  his  affinity  may  possibly  have  been.  He 
writes  thus — "  //  MR.  BURKE  had  been  content  with  '  unplumbing ' 
a  dead  Russell,  and  hewing  HIM  (observe — not  the  coffin,  but 
HIM — the  old  dead  Russell  himself)  into  grape  and  canister,  to 
sweep  down  the  whole  generation  of  his  descendants,"  d-c.,  &c. 

The  thing  is  scarcely  credible ;  but  IT  is  so !  We  write 
with  the  book  open  before  us. 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  75 

Whoe'er  thou  art — ne'er  may  thy  patriot  fire, 
Unfed  by  praise  or  patronage,  expire ! 
Forbid  it,  Taste  ! — with  Compensation  large 
Patrician  hands  thy  labours  shall  o'ercharge  !  * 
BEDFORD  and  WHITBREAD  shall  vast  sums  advance, 
The  L'ind  and  Malt  of  Jacobin  Finance ! 

Whoe'er  thou  art — before  thy  feet  we  lay,  40 

With  lowly  suit,  our  Number  of  to-day ! 
Spurn  not  our  offering  with  averted  eyes  ! 
Let  thy  pure  breath  revive  the  extinguished  Lies  ! 
Mistakes,  Mis-statements,  now  so  oft  o'erthrown, 
Eebuild,  and  prop  with  nonsense  of  thy  own ! 
Pervert  our  meaning,  and  misquote  our  text — 
And  furnish  us  a  motto  for  the  next ! 


*  Qu. — Surcharge  ? 
Line  16.— [Brookes's  Club  was  the  grand  rendezvous  of  the  Whigs.— ED.] 

Line  17.— [JAS.  HARE  was  M.P.  for  Knaresborough,  and  one  of  the  most 
brilliant  wits  of  the  Whig  Party.  At  Eton  his  verses  were  hung  up  as  speci- 
mens of  excellence.  Great  expectations  were  raised  as  to  his  eloquence  in  the 
House  of  Commons.  But  his  timidity  was  so  great  that  he  broke  down  in  his 
ttrst  speech,  and  this  failure,  joined  with  delicate  health,  prevented  a  second 
attempt.  Horace  Walpole  speaks  of  his  "  brilliancy  and  tire,"  and  of  his  own 
inferiority  to  him.  His  bong  runts  were  innumerable.  He  died  in  1804.  The 
following  is  Lord  Ossory's  opinion  of  the  social  talents  of  some  of  the  best 
talkers  of  his  day  :— "  Horace  Walpole  was  an  agreeable,  lively  man,  very 
affected,  always  aiming  at  wit,  in  which  he  fell  very  short  of  his  old  friend, 
(iKC)K(iE  SEI.WYN,  who  possessed  it  in  the  most  genuine  but  indescribable  degree. 
HARE'S  conversation  abounded  with  wit.  and  perhaps  of  a  more  lively  kind  ;  so 
did  Bi'UKE's.  though  with  much  alloy  of  bad  taste  ;  but,  upon  the  whole,  my 
brother  the  General  [FiTZPATRiCK]  was  the  most  agreeable  man  in  society  of 
any  of  them." — MS.,  R.  Vernon  Smith.— ED.] 

Line  19.— [General  FITZPATRICK  was  one  of  Fox's  most  attached  friends 
and  political  supporters.  BOSWELL,  speaking  of  a  dinner  at  BEAUCLERK'S,  24th 
April,  1779,  says,  on  a  celebrated  wit  being  mentioned  (believed  to  he  Fitzpatrick), 
"JOHNSON  replied,  '  I  have  been  several  times  in  company  with  him,  but  never 
perceived  any  strong  power  of  wit.  He  produces  a  general  effect  by  various 
means ;  he  has  a  cheerful  countenance  and  a  gay  voice.  Besides  his  trade  is 
wit.  It  would  be  as  wild  in  him  to  come  into  company  without  merriment,  as 
for  a  highwayman  to  take  the  road  without  his  pistols."'  WALPOLK  (in  his 
Jounmloftht  Reiyn  qr'Gtorge  III.,  \.  167.  and  ii.  560,  describes  him  as  "anagreeable 
young  man  of  parts,"  and  mentions  his  "genteel  irony  and  badinage  ".  He  was 
Lord  Shelburne's  brother-in-law,  at  whose  house  Johnson  might  have  met  him, 
as  well  as  in  Fox's  company.  Rogers  (Tniilt  Tulk,  p.  104)  said  that  Fitzpatrick 
was  at  one  time  nearly  as  famous  for  his  wit  as  Hare.  He  possessed  no  mean 


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POETRY   OF 


poetic  talents,  particularly  for  compositions  of  wit,  fancy,  and  satire.  To  the 
Jtolliad  he  contributed  "  Extract  from  the  Dedication"  ;  Nos.  v.  ix.  and  xii.,  in 
Part  I.  ;  and  No.  v.  in  Part  II.  In  the  Political  Eclogues,  he  wrote  "  The  Liars  "  ; 
and  "Pindaric  Ode"  (No.  xv.)— also,  "Incantation  for  raising  a  Phantom, 
imitated  from  Macbeth,"  in  the  Political  Miscellanies. 


GENERAL  RICHARD  FITZPATRICK'S  EPITAPH  ON  HIMSELF. 

"  MY  OWN  EPITAPH. 

"  Whose  turn  is  next  ?    This  monitory  Stone 
Replies,  vain  Passenger,  perhaps  thy  own. 
If,  idly  curious,  thou  wilt  seek  to  know 
Whose  relics  mingle  with  the  dust  below, 
Enough  to  tell  thee,  that  his  destin'd  span 
On  Earth  he  dwelt, — and,  like  thyself,  a  Man. 
Nor  distant  far  th'  inevitable  day 
When  thou,  poor  mortal,  shalt  like  him  be  clay. 
Through  life  he  walk'd  unemulous  of  fame, 
Nor  wish'd  beyond  it  to  preserve  a  name. 
Content,  if  Friendship,  o'er  his  humble  bier, 
Drop  but  the  heartfelt  tribute  of  a  tear ; 
Though  countless  ages  should  unconscious  glide, 
Nor  learn  that  ever  he  had  liv'd,  or  died. 

"R.  F." 

Such  is  the  epitaph  placed  on  a  stone  sarcophagus  in  the  usual  form,  in  the 
churchyard  at  Sunninghill,  close  to  the  house  where  Gen.  Fitzpatrick's  friend, 
G.  Ellis,  died.— Nichols,  Lit.  lllustr.,  vol.  vii.,  pp.  C33-4.— ED.] 

Line  19.— [Lord  JOHN  TOWNSHEND,  the  second  son  of  the  first  Marquis 
Townshend.  He  represented  Cambridge  till  ousted  by  PITT  at  the  general 
election  in  1784.  In  1788  he  became  the  colleague  of  Fox  for  Westminster.  He 
afterwards  represented  Knaresborough  for  twenty  -five  years  :  his  colleague  in 
1797  was  HARE.  He  had  great  powers  of  wit  and  satire.  In  the  Political 
Eclogues  (subjoined  to  The  Jioltiml),  he  wrote  the  one  entitled  "  Jekyll".  To 
the  Probationary  Odes  for  the  Laureatship  he  contributed  No.  xii.,  in  ridicule  of 
Warren  Hastings's  agent,  Major  John  Scott,  M.P.  Also,  the  "Dialogue 
between  a  certain  personage  and  his  Minister,"  in  imitation  of  the  Ninth  Ode 
of  Horace,  Book  III.— ED.] 

Line  20.— [Sir  FRANCIS  BURDETT,  then  M.P.  for  Boroughbridge. — ED.] 

Line  23.— [JOHN  RICHARDSON,  M.P.  for  Newport,  Cornwall,  and  one  of  the 
proprietors  of  Drury  Lane  Theatre.  In  the  Rolliad  he  was  the  author,  in  Part 
I.,  of  Nos.  iv.,  x.,  and  xi. ;  and  in  Part  II.  of  Nos.  iii.  and  iv.  He  wrote  No.  iv. 
of  Probationary  Odes,  in  ridicule  of  Sir  R.  Hill,  Bart. ;  No.  xix.  on  Viscount 
Mountmorres,  and  the  concluding  prose  portion.  To  the  Political  Miscellanies 
he  contributed,  "  This  is  the  House  that  George  Built,"  and  in  conjunction 
with  Tickell,  the  "  Epigrams  by  Sir  Cecil  Wray,"  "  Pretymaniana,"  and 
"Foreign  Epigrams".  In  the  latter  Dr.  Laurence  assisted  them.  Also  "A 
Tale:  AtBrookes'sonceitsofellout".  "Theatrical  Intelligence  Extraordinary." 
"  Epigram  :  Who  shall  Expect  the  Country's  Friend  ?  "  "A  new  Ballad  :  Billy 
Eden,"  in  conjunction  with  Tickell.  "  Proclamation."  He  died  in  1803. — Ei>.] 

Line  25. — [The  Rev.  SAMTEL  PARR,  LL.D.,  was  not  only  a  great  scholar,  but 
an  uncompromising  Whig,  and  one  of  Fox's  most  enthusiastic  supporters.  His 
conversational  powers  were  great,  and  his  arguments  were  enforced  by  bold- 
ness, dogmatism,  and  arrogance,  which  qualities,  however,  did  not  always 
exempt  nim  from  stinging  retorts  even  from  the  fair  sex.  The  following, 
among  other  attacks,  appears  in  Crabb  Robinson's  interesting  Diary,  ii.  457 : — 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  77 


A   KECIPE. 

To  half  of  BUSBY'S  skill  in  mood  and  tense 

Add  BENTI.EY'S  pleasantry,  without  his  sense : 

Of  WARBURTON  take  all  the  spleen  you  find, 

And  leave  his  genius  and  his  wit  behind. 

Squeeze  CHURCHILL'S  rancour  from  the  verse  it  flows  in, 

And  knead  it  stiff  with  JOHNSON'S  heavy  prosing. 

Add  all  the  piety  of  ST.  VOLTAIRE, 

Mix  the  gross  compound— Fiat  DK.  PARR. 

His  person,  in  full  canonicals,  with  capacious  wig,  unfailing  tobacco  pipe  and 
tankard,  is,  with  the  effigies  of  many  other  noted  politicians  of  the  period,  intro- 
duced into  a  spirited  bacchanalian  scene  by  Gillray,  published  in  1801,  entitled 
The  Union  Club. 

Line  2o.— [JOHN  COURTENAY  was  for  many  years  one_  of  the  men  of  mark  in 
the  House  of  Commons  for  his  ability,  independent  spirit,  erudition,  and  co_arse 
sarcastic  wit.  He  was  born  at  Carlingford,  Ireland,  in  1738.  Having  obtained 
the  patronage  of  George,  Viscount  Townshend,  Lord-Lieutenant  (1767-72),  he 
became  the  principal  writer  in  the  "  Batchelor,"  a  government  paper,  distin- 
guished by  genuine  wit  and  humour,  conducted  by  Simcox,  a  clergyman  ; 
Richard  Marlay ,  afterwards  Bishop  of  Waterf  ord  and  Lismore  ;  Robert  Jephson, 
a  dramatic  poet  of  note ;  the  Rev.  Mr.  Boroughs,  and  others.  The  chief  task  of 
these  advocates  of  the  Castle  was  to  counteract  the  "  Baratarian  Letters"  an 
Irish  imitation  of  Junius,  which,  attacking  the  Lord-Lieutenant's  government, 
received  contributions  from  Flood,  and  first  published  Grattan's  character  of 
Chatham.  At  the  "  Coalition,"  1783,  he  was  appointed  Surveyor-general  of  the 
Ordnance,  and  henceforward  attached  himself  to  Fox.  He  wrote,  among  other 
works,  A  Poetical  Review  of  the  Literary  and  Moral  Character  of  the  late  Samuel 
Johnson,  LL.D.,  1786 ;  The  Rape  of  Pomona,  an  Elegiac  Epistle  from  the  Waiter  at 
Hockrd  to  the  Hon.'  Mr.  Lyttelton,  1773  ;  Philosophical  Reflections  on  the  late  Revolu- 
tion in  France;  and  a  Biographical  Sketch  of  his  own  Life.  In  his  Epistles  in  Rhyme 
he  thus  ridicules  Horace  Walpole's  Strawberry  Verses  on  the  two  Misses  Berry: — 

"  Who  to  love  tunes  his  note,  with  the  flre  of  old  age, 
And  chirps  the  trim  lay  in  a  trim  Gothic  cage  ". 

Walpole,  however  (Correspomlence,  is.  434-5),  good-naturedly  laughed  at  them, 
saying  that  these  verses  on  himself  were  really  some  of  the  best  in  the  whole 
set.  Courteuay  was  a  member  of  The  Literary  Club,  founded  by  Sir  Joshua  Rey- 
nolds, and  figures  in  several  of  Gillray's  caricatures.  He  it  was  who,  referring 
to  Gay's  Beggars'  Opera,  designated  the  author  the  Orpheus  of  Highwaymen.  He 
died  24th  March,  1816.— Ei-.] 

Line  26.— fSir  ROBERT  ADAIR.  Some  observations  on  his  alleged  mission  to 
St.  J'etersburgh  to  counteract  the  measures  of  Government  will  be  found  on  a 
subsequent  page.  The  publication  here  satirized  is  entitled  "  Part  of  a  Letter 
from  Robert  Adair,  Esq.,  to  the  Rt.  Hon.  C.  J.  Fox  ;  occasioned  by  Mr.  Burke's 
mention  of  Lord  Keppel  in  a  recent  publication,"  London,  Debrett,  1796,  and  is 
by  no  means  a  contemptible  composition.  It  is  called  "Part  of  a  Letter,"  be- 
cause it  is  a  portion  of  a  longer  one,  being  only  the  part  devoted  to  a 
vindication  of  the  writer's  uncle,  Admiral  Lord  Keppel,  and  of  Fox  ;  with 
characteristic  delineations  of  Sir  G.  Saville,  the  Marquis  of  Rockingham,  Lord 
North,  and  George  Byng,  M.P.,  on  all  of  whom  he  passes  great  compliments. — 
ED.] 


78  POETEY   OF 

ODE  TO  LOED  MOIEA. 

i. 

IF  on  your  head  *  some  vengeance  fell, 
MOIBA,  for  every  tale  you  tell, 

The  listening  Lords  to  cozen ; 
If  but  one  whisker  lost  its  hue, 
Changed  (like  Moll  Coggin's  tail)  to  blue, 

I'd  hear  them  by  the  dozen. 

n. 

But  still,  howe'er  you  draw  your  bow,i 
Your  charms  improve,  your  triumphs  grow, 

New  grace  adorns  your  figure ; 
More  stiff  your  boots,  more  black  your  stock,      10 
Your  hat  assumes  a  prouder  cock, 

Like  Pistol's  (if  'twere  bigger). 

in. 

Tell  then  your  stories,  strange  and  new, 
Your  Fathers  fame  J  shall  vouch  them  true ; 

So  shall  the  Dublin  Papers; 
Swear  ^v  the  stars  §  that  saw  the  sight, 

*HORACE,  ODE  VIII.,  BOOK  II. 

IN   BARINEM. 

Ulla  si  juris  tibi  pejerati 
Poena,  Barine,  nocuisset  unquam, 
Dente  si  nigro  fieres,  vel  uno 

Turpior  ungui, 

Crederem.     -fSed  tu  simul  obligdsti 
Perfidum  wtis  caput,  enitescis 
Pulchrior  multo,  juvenumque  prodis 

Publica  ciira. 

J  Expedit  matris  cineres  opertos 
Fallere,  et  toto  §  taciturna  noctis 
tiigna  cum  ccelo,  gelidaque  Divos 

Morte  carentes. 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  79 

That  infant  thousands  die  each  night, 
While  troops  blow  out  their  tapers. 

IV. 

SHUCKBURGH*  shall  cheer  you  with  a  smile, 
MACPHERSONf  simpering  all  the  while,  20 

With  BASTARD t  and  with  Bruin  :t 
And  fierce  NICHOLL,J  who  wields  at  will 
Th'  emphatic  stick,  or  powerful  quill, 

To  prove  his  country's  ruin. 

v. 

Each  day  new  followers  §  crowd  your  board, 
And  lean  expectants  hail  my  Lord 

With  adoration  fervent : 
Old  THURLO\V,||  though  he  swore  by  G — 
No  more  to  own  a  master's  nod, 

Is  still  your  humble  servant.  30 

VI. 

Old  PULTENEY^I"  too,  your  influence  feels, 
And  asks  from  you  th'  Exchequer  Seals, 
To  tax  and  save  the  nation  : 


Ridet  hoc,  inquam,  *  Venus  ipsa;  rident 
Simplices  f  Nymphce,  ferus  et  J  Cupido 
Semper  ardentes  acuens  sayittas 

Cote  cruenta. 

Adde  quod  pubes  tibi  crescit  orunis, 
§  tiervitus  crescit  nova;  \\nec  priores 
Inipice  tectum  domince  relinquunt, 

ki(epe  ininati. 

Te  suis  matres  metuunt  juvencis ; 
Te  ^[  senes  parci,  miserceque  §  mtper 
Virgines  nuptw,  tua  ne  retardet 

Aura  Maritos. 


80  POETRY    OP 

TOOKE  trembles,*  lest  your  potent  charms 
Should  lure  CHARLES  Fox  §  from  his  fond  arms, 
To  YOUR  Administration.  36 

*  The  trepidation  of  Mr.  Tooke,  though  natural,  was  not 
necessary ;  as  it  appeared  from  the  ever-memorable  "  Letter  to 
Mr.  M'Mahon  "  (which  was  published  about  this  time  in  the 
Morning  Chronicle,  and  threw  the  whole  town  into  paroxysms 
of  laughter),  that  in  the  Administration  which  his  Lordship 
was  so  gravely  employed  in  forming,  Mr.  Fox  was  to  have  no 
place  ! 

[TRANSLATION  OF  HORACE,  BOOK  JL,   ODE  VIII. 

BY  ARCHDEACON  WRANGHAM. 

Avenger  of  insulted  truth, 
Had  Heaven,  Barine,  dimm'd  one  tooth  ; 
Or  bade,  in  justice  bade,  thee  wail 
A  speck  upon  a  single  nail — 
I'd  trust  thee  :  but  ere  well  the  vow 
Has  passed  those  treacherous  lips,  there  glow 
New  beauties  mantling  o'er  thy  cheek  ; 
And  thee  the  youth,  thee  only  seek. 

It  profits  thee  to  be  forsworn 
By  thy  dead  mother's  hallowed  urn  ; 
By  heaven,  and  each  mute  nightly  sign, 
And  every  deathless  power  divine. 
Yes :  Venus  laughs  well-pleased,  and  lo  ! 
The  gentle  Nymphs  are  laughing  too  ; 
And  Cupid,  who  his  burning  darts 
Whets  with  fresh  blood  from  lovers'  hearts. 

Boyhood  is  rising  to  thy  sway, 
Thy  train  of  slaves  augments  :  e'en  they, 
Who  swore  thy  threshold  to  forsake, 
Hug  the  fond  chain  they  cannot  break. 
Thee  for  their  sons  pale  mothers  fear, 
The  frugal  father  for  his  heir ; 
And  plighted  maidens,  lest  thy  charms 
Keep  the  false  truants  from  their  arms.— ED.] 

NOTES  TO  THE  ODE  TO  LORD  MOIRA. 

[This  Ode,  written  by  GEORGE  ELLIS,  refers  to  the  wish  of  a  "  Third  Party" 
in  the  House  of  Commons,  who  were  dissatisfied  with  the  conduct  of  the  war, 
the  embarrassed  state  of  the  finances,  and  the  alarming  situation  of  the  coun- 
try, to  have  an  interview  with  LORD  MOIRA,  with  a  view  to  effect  a  change  of 
Ministry.  The  following  extracts  from  a  letter  from  his  Lordship  to  COL. 
M'MAHON,  dated  June  15,  1797,  will  throw  some  light  on  this  negotiation. 
"They  requested  that  I  would  endeavour,  on  the  assurance  of  their  support,  to 
form  an  administration,  on  the  principle  of  excluding  persons,  who  had  on 
either  side  made  themselves  obnoxious  to  the  public.  I  strenuously  recom- 
mended them  to  form  an  alliance  with  MR.  Fox's  party,  that  might  be  satisfac- 
tory to  themselves,  and  reduce  to  strict  engagement  the  extent  of  the  measures, 
•which  MR.  Fox,  when  brought  into  office  by  themselves,  would  propose. 


THE   ANTI- JACOBIN.  81 

Hitherto  nobody  has  been  designated  to  any  particular  office  but  SIR  WILLIAM 
PULTENEY.  The  gentleman  had  said  that  he  was  the  person  whom  they  should 
be  most  gratified  in  seeing  CHANCELLOR  OF  THE  EXCHEQUER,  and  I  had  pro- 
fessed to  them  and  to  him  that  there  was  not  any  person  with  whom  I  could 
act  more  confidently.  I  added,  the  introduction  of  LORD  THURLOW,  SIR  W. 
PULTENEV,  and  myself,  into  the  Cabinet,  would  not  assure  the  public  of  a 
change  of  system." — ED.] 

Line  3. — [Referring  to  LORD  MOIRA'S  complaints  against  the  Government 
agents,  for  unnecessary  cruelty  to  the  Irish  rebels. — ED.] 

Line  13. — [The  following  attack  upon  Lord  Moira,  "for  his  patriotic  zeal, 
and  the  correctness  and  propriety  with  which  he  gave,  in  the  upper  House  of 
Parliament,  an  account  of  the  insurrection  upon  his  estates,  and  in  other  parts 
of  Ireland,"  is  extracted  from  the  "  Batchelor  ".  These  observations  were  there 
pointed  at  the  father  of  Lord  Moira,  but  have  been  adapted  by  the  Author  of 
the  <>:i.  and  the  Artist  to  the  son. 

Lord  Moira. — "  My  Lords,  I  rise  to  return  my  thanks  to  the  Noble  Lord  who 
spoke  last.  I  can  testify  the  truth  of  all  he  has  asserted.  At  the  time  of  the 
Insurrection  in  the  North,  I  had  frequent  and  intimate  conversations  with  that 
celebrated  enchanter,  Moll  Coggin.  I  have  often  seen  her  riding  on  a  black  ram 
with  a  blue  tail.  Once  I  endeavoured  to  fire  at  her,  but  my  gun  melted  in  my 
hand  into  a  clear  jelly.  This  jelly  I  tasted,  and  if  it  had  been  a  little  more  acid, 
it  would  have  been  most  excellent.  The  Noble  Lords  may  laugh  ;  but  I  declare 
the  fact  upon  my  veracity,  which  has  never  been  doubted.  Once  I  pursued  this 
fiend  into  my  ale  cellar :  she  rode  instantly  out  of  my  sight  intn  the  bung-hole 
of  a  beer  barrel.  She  was  at  that  time  mounted  on  her  black  ram  with  the 
blue  tail.  Some  time  after,  my  servants  were  much  surprised  to  find  their  ale 
full  of  Uue  hairs.  I  was  not  surprised,  as  I  knew  the  blue  hairs  were  the  hairs 
of  the  ram's  blue  tail.  Noble  Lords  may  stare,  but  the  fact  is  as  I  relate  it. 
This  Moll  Coggin.  was  the  fiend  who  raised  the  Oak-'joy»  to  rebellion.  I  was  also 
well  acquainted  with  the  two  Cow-boys  mentioned  by  the  Noble  Lord ;  they 
were  my  tenants,  and  were  certainly  endowed  with  supernatural  powers.  I 
have  known  one  of  them  tear  up  by  the  roots  an  Oak  two  hundred  feet  high, 
and  bear  it  upright  on  his  head  four  miles !  his  party  were  on  that  account 
called  Oak-boys.  Noble  Lords  may  laugh,  but  I  speak  from  certain  knowledge. 
The  Oak-tree_  grew  in  my  garden,  and  I  have  often  seen  five  hundred  Swans 
perching  on  its  boughs ;  these  swans  were  remarkable  for  destroying  all  the 
snipes  in  the  country — they  flew  faster  than  any  snipe  I  ever  saw,  and  you  may 
imagine  a  small  bird  could  make  but  a  feeble  resistance  in  the  talons  of  a  swan. 
I  hope,  my  Lords,  you  will  pardon  my  wandering  a  little  from  the  present  subject," 
Ac.— ED.] 

Line  17. — ["  One  night  after  nine  o'clock,  a  party  of  Soldiers  saw  a  light  in  a 
house  by  the  road-side — they  went  and  ordered  it  to  be  extinguished  immediately: 
the  people  of  the  house  begged  that  the  light  might  be  suffered  to  remain 
because  there  was  a  child  belonging  to  the  family  in  convulsion  fits,  who  must 
expire  for  want  of  help  if  the  people  were  to  be  without  tire  and  candle  ;  but  thi* 
request  HAD  NO  EFFECT."  Lord  Moira'i  Speech  in  the  House  of  Lords,  November  22, 
1797.  This  statement  was,  however,  satisfactorily  disproved.  The  incident 
forms  a  feature  in  the  accompanying  engraving.  Notwithstanding  official 
denials,  it  has  long  been  admitted  that  the  conduct  of  the  Soldiery  in  Ireland 
was  simply  infamous.  Billeting  on  Catholics  and  reputed  malcontents  of  the 
better  class  appears  to  have  been  invariably  as  an  unlimited  licence  for  robbery, 
devastation,  ravishment,  and,  in  case  of  resistance,  murder.  Sir  Ralph  Aber- 
cromby,  on  assuming  the  command  of  the  army  in  Ireland,  declared,  in  general 
orders,  that  their  habits  and  discipline  were  such  as  to  render  them  "  formidable 
to  everybody  but  the  enemy  ".  The  just  severity  of  this  phrase  was  confirmed 
by  the  subsequent  experience  of  Lord  Cornwallis. — ED.] 

Line  19.— [Sir  George  Augustus  William  Shuckburgh,  distinguished  by  his 
scientific  researches,  married  the  daughter  and  sole  heiress  of  Jas.  Evelyn,  Esq. 
of  Felbridg_e,  Surrey,  by  whom  he  had  an  only  daughter,  Julia,  who  became,  in 
1810,  the  wife  of  the  Earl  of  Liverpool.  Sir  George,  on  the  decease  of  his  father- 
in-law  in  1793,  assumed  the  additional  surname  of  Evelyn.  He  died  in  1804, 
having  been  five  times  returned  to  Parliament  for  the  county  of  Warwick.— ED.] 

6 


82 


POETRY   OF 


Line  20.— [Sir  John  Macpherson,  Bart,  was  M.P.  for  Horsham,  and  for  a  short 
period  Governor-General  of  India. — ED.] 

Line  21.— [Col.  Bastard  was  M.P.  for  Devon.  He  was  returned  with  Mr. 
Rolle,  the  hero  of  "  The  Rolliad,"  on  the  Pitt  interest.— ED.] 

Line  31.— [Sir  William  Pulteney  was  M.P.  for  Shrewsbury,  and  no  Member  in 
the  House  was  more  looked  up  to.  He  was  the  second  son  of  Sir  James  John- 
stone,  Bart.,  of  Westerhall,  and  brother  of  Governor  Johnstone.  He  married 
the  cousin  of  Lt.-Gen.  Henry  Pulteney,  surviving  brother  of  William  Pulteney, 
Earl  of  Bath,  assuming  the  name  of  Pulteney.  The  General  left  immense 
wealth,  "the  fruits  of  his  brother's  virtues  !"  as  Horace  Walpole  sarcastically 
phrases  it.  The  greater  part  of  it  he  bequeathed  to  the  said  cousin.  Sir  Wil- 
liam Johnstone  Pulteney  died  in  1805.  His  daughter  was  created  Countess  of 
Bath.— ED.] 

Line  38.— [Of  M'MAHON  it  is  said  in  T.  RAIKES'S  Journal  (November,  1836):— 
"  George  IV.  never  had  any  private  friends  :  he  selected  his  confidants  from  his 
minions.  M  'MAHON  was  an  Irishman  of  low  birth  and  obsequious  manners  : 
he  was  a  little  man,  his  face  red,  covered  with  pimples  ;  always  dressed  in  the 
blue  and  buff  uniform,  with  his  hat  on  one  side,  copying  the  air  of  his  master, 
to  whom  he  was  a  prodigious  foil,  and  ready  to  execute  any  commissions,  which 
in  those  days  were  somewhat  complicated."  He  was  private  secretary  and 
keeper  of  the  privy  purse  to  King  George  IV.  when  Prince  Regent,  was  sworn 
of  the  Privy  Council,  and  created  a  Baronet,  7th  August,  1817,  with  remainder, 
in  default  of  male  issue,  to  his  brother.  SIR  JOHN  died  12th  September,  1817, 
the  title  devolving  on  his  brother  THOMAS,  a  distinguished  military  officer,  who 
was  Adjutant-General  of  Her  Majesty's  forces  in  India,  Lieut. -Gov.  of  Ports- 
mouth, Commander-in-Chief  of  the  Bombay  Army,  &c. 

SIR  JOHN  M'MAHON  left  a  large  personal  property,  amounting  to  £90,000. 
One  of  his  bequests  is  thus  worded :  "  To  THOMAS  MARRABLE,  a  dear  and 
esteemed  friend,  £2000  ;  and  with  my  last  prayers  for  the  glory  and  happiness 
of  the  best-hearted  man  in  the  world,  the  PRINCE  REGENT,  I  bequeath  him  the 
said  Thomas  Marrable,  an  invaluable  servant ".  The  latter  was  a  member  of 
the  household  of  King  George  IV.,  and  one  of  his  confidential  agents.  A  full- 
length  portrait  of  him  as  one  of  the  procession  is  given  in  Sir  G.  Nayler's  history 
of  the  coronation  of  that  monarch. 

Among  Gillray's  Caricatures  is  an  amusing  one,  engraved  but  not  designed  by 
him,  published  in  1804,  representing  the  Heir- Apparent,  mounted  on  a  tall  horse, 
with  the  much  smaller  person  of  M'Mahon  consequentially  riding  on  a  diminu- 
tive steed  at  his  side,  passing  the  gates  of  Carlton  House.  The  quotation  from 
Burns  engraved  on  it  suggests  that  the  Prince  might  still  prove  a  worthy  occu- 
pant of  the  throne. — ED.] 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN. 


No.   XII. 

Jan.  29,  1798. 

THE  following  Ode*  was  dropped  into  the  letterbox  in 
our  Publisher's  window.  From  its  title — "  A  BIT  OP  AN 
ODE  TO  MB.  Fox" — we  were  led  to  imagine  there  was 
some  mistake  in  the  business,  and  that  it  was  meant 
to  have  been  conveyed  to  Mr.  Wright's  neighbour,  Mr. 
Debrett,  whom  we  recollected  to  have  been  the  Publisher 
of  the  "  Half  of  a  Letter"  to  the  same  gentleman,  which 
occasioned  so  much  noise  (of  horse-laughing)  in  the  world. 
Our  politics  certainly  do  not  entitle  us  to  the  honourable 
distinction  of  being  made  the  channel  for  communicating 
such  a  production  to  the  public.  But,  for  our  parts,  as 
we  are  "  not  at  war  with  genius,"  on  whatever  side  we 
find  it,  we  are  happy  to  give  this  Poem  the  earliest  place 
in  our  Paper ;  and  shall  be  equally  ready  to  pay  the  same 
attention  to  any  future  favours  of  the  same  kind,  and 
from  the  same  quarter. 

The  Poem  is  a  free  translation,  or  rather,  perhaps, 
imitation,  of  the  twentieth  Ode  of  the  second  Book  of 
HORACE.     We  have  taken  the  liberty  to  subjoin  the  pas- 
sages of  which  the  parallel  is  the  most  striking. 
A  BIT  OF  AN  ODE  TO  MR.  FOX.* 
i. 

On 1  grey  goose  quills  sublime  I'll  soar 

To  metaphors  unreach'd  before, 
That  scare  the  vulgar  reader : 

[*  As  if  written  by  ROBERT  AD  AIR,  who  had  previously  indited 
"  HALF  a  Letter  to  Mr.  Fox".] 


84  POETKY   OF 

With  style  well  form'd  from  BUKKE'S  best'-books — 
From  rules  of  grammar  (e'en  HORNE  TOOKE'S) 
A  bold  and  free  Seceder. 

n. 

1 2  whom,  dear  Fox,  you  condescend 
To  call  your  "Honourable  Friend," 

Shall  live  for  everlasting : 
That s  Stygian  Gallery  I'll  quit, 
Where  printers  crowd  me,  as  I  sit 

Half-dead  with  rage  and  fasting. 

in. 

1 4  feel !  the  growing  down  descends, 
Like  goose-skin,  to  my  fingers'  ends — 

Each  nail  becomes  a  feather : 
My  cropp'd  head5  waves  with  sudden  plumes, 
Which  erst  (like  BEDFORD'S,  or  his  groom's) 

Unpowder'd,  braved  the  weather.  * 

IV. 

I  mount,  I  mount  into  the  sky, 

"  Sweet 6  bird,"  to  7  Petersburg  I'll  fly  ; 

Or,  if  you  bid,  to  Paris ; 
Fresh  missions  of  the  Fox  and  Goose 
Successful  Treaties  may  produce ; 

Though  PITT  in  all  miscarries. 

v. 

Scotch,8  English,  Irish  Whigs  shall  read 
The  Pamphlets,  Letters,  Odes  I  breed, 
Charm'd  with  each  bright  endeavour  : 

[  *  MR.  PITT'S  Tax  upon  Hair-powder  proved  a  failure ; 
many  of  the  public  declining  its  use.  Those  who  continued  it 
were  called  "guinea-pigs"  the  tax  being  a  guinea  per  head. — ED.] 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  85 

Alarmists 9  tremble  at  my  strain, 
E'en 10  PITT,  made  candid  by  champaign, 
Shall  hail  ADAIB  "  the  clever". 

VI. 

Though  criticism  assail  my  name, 
And  luckless  blunders  blot  my  fame,11 

O  ! 12  make  no  needless  bustle ; 
As  vain  and  idle  it  would  be 
To  waste  one  pitying  thought  on  me, 

As  to18  "miPLUMB  a  RUSSELL  ".* 

1  Non  usitata  nee  tenui  ferar 

Penna  biforrnis  per  liquidum  sethera 

Vates. 
2 Non  ego,  quern  vocas 

Dilecte,  Maecenas,  obibo, 
'  Nee  Stygia  cohibebor  unda. 
4  Jamjam  residunt  cruribus  asperse 

Pelles,  et  album  mutor  in  alitem 
8  Superne,  nascunturque  leves 

Per  digitos  humerosque  plumae. 

Visam  gementis  littora  Bosphori, 

Syrtesque  Gaetulas,6  canorus 

Ales,7  Hyperboreosque  campos. 
8  Me  Colchus,  et  qui  9  dissimulat  metuni 
*  *  * 

*  *  *      me  peritus 


me   pen  i  us 

Discet  Iber  Rhodanique  10  potor. 
Absint  n  inani  funere  neniae, 

12  Luctusque  turpes  et  querimoniae. 

13 sepulchri 

Mitte  supervacuous  honores. 


["  For  an  explanation  of  this  allusion,  see  Note  at  p.  74. — ED.] 


86  POETRY   OF 

[LYRICS  OF  HORACE,  BOOK  II.,  ODE  XX. 

TRANSLATED  BY  ARCHDEACON  WRANGHAM 

Borne  on  no  weak  or  vulgar  wing, 
Upward  through  air,  two-form'd,  I'll  spring ; 
Nor  longer  grovel  here,  but  soar 
Where  Envy  shail  pursue  no  more. 
Not  I,  from  humble  lineage  sprung, 
Not  I,  dear  Patron,  whom  thy  tongue 
Summons  to  fame,  will  fear  to  die, 
Or  bound  by  Styx's  fetters  lie. 

A  rougher  skin  my  legs  assume  ; 
My  upward  limbs  the  cygnet's  plume 
Invests  ;  my  shoulders,  fingers  feel 
The  feathery  softness  o'er  them  steal. 

Fleeter  than  Icarus  now  I'll  haste, 
A  tuneful  swan,  to  Libya's  waste, 
And  heaving  sands,  where  Bospor's  wave 
Tosses,  or  Arctic  tempests  rave. 
Me  Colchis,  Dacia  me  shall  learn, 
Who  hides  her  fear  of  Marsian  stern  ; 
Me  Scythia's  hordes,  the  well-trained  son 
Of  Spain,  and  he  who  quaffs  the  Rhone. 

From  my  mock  bier  be  far  away 
The  loud  lament,  the  funeral  lay ; 
And,  tribute  to  my  fancied  doom, 
Far  the  vain  honours  of  the  tomb ! — ED.] 

[The  charge  of  Fox's  having  sent  ADAIR  to  St.  Petersburg,  to  counteract 
the  measures  of  PITT'S  government,  first  broached  in  Mr.  Burke's  "Letter  on 
the  Conduct  of  the  Minority,"  has  been  vigorously  contradicted,  yet  so  late  as 
April,  1854,  it  was  alluded  to  as  a  fact  by  Lord  Malmesbury  in  the  House  of 
Peers.  It  was,  however,  on  this  occasion  again  authoritatively  denied  by  LORD 
CAMPBELL,  who  took  occasion  to  observe  that  SIR  ROBERT  ADAIR  was  "  now  in 
his  90th  year,  and  for  many  years  had  served  his  country  with  great  assiduity 
and  fidelity.  He  had  been  sent  by  successive  ministers  [Mr.  Fox,  Lord  Grey, 
Mr.  Canning  (who  assisted  in  libelling  him  so  often  in  the  pages  of  the  present 
work),  Lord  Wellesley,  Lord  Palmerston,  the  Duke  of  Wellington]  to  Vienna, 
to  Constantinople,  to  Brussels,  and  to  Berlin,  and  had  represented  the  Crown 
of  England  upon  some  occasions  of  very  great  importance,  in  which  he  had  uni- 
formly acquitted  himself  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  Government  and  for  the 
benefit  of  his  country.  He  believed  a  more  honourable  man  had  not  lived  in 
this  country  at  any  time." 

The  following  denial  by  Sir  Robert  Adair  himself  is  copied  from  his  auto- 
graph statement,  prefixed  to  the  Life  of  H'ilberforce,  published  in  1838  : — "  This 
idle  story  is  here  accredited  by  Mr.  Wilberforce,  and  inserted  by  his  sons, 
without  due  examination.  It  was  grounded  on  a  journey  I  made  to  Vienna  and 
St.  Petersburg  in  1791.  Doctor  Prettyman  [sic],  Bishop  of  Winchester,  in  a 
work  entitled  The  Life  of  the  Right  Hon.  William  Pitt,  published  by  him  in  1823, 
brought  forward  the  fact  of  my  having  gone  upon  this  journey  as  a  criminal 
charge  agains_t  Mr.  Fox,  who,  as  he  pretends,  sent  me  upon  it  with  the  intent 
of  counteracting  some  negociations  then  carrying  on  between  Great  Britain  and 
Russia  at  St.  Petersburg.  I  answered  his  accusation,  I  trust  successfully,  in 
two  letters  published  by  Longman  &  Co.  [Two  Letters  from  Mr.  Adair  to  the 
Bp.  of  Winchester,  in  answer  to  the  charge  of  a  High  Treasonable  Misdemeanour 
brought  by  his  Lordship  against  Mr.  Fox  and  himself  in  kis_  Life  of  the  Rt.  Hon.  W. 
Pitt,  8vo.,  1821],  and  explained  the  circumstances  which  induced  me  in  my 
travels  in  1791  to  visit  the  two  capitals  above  mentioned. — ROBERT  ADAIR: 
1838." 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  87 

The  "  Mission  "  was,  however,  firmly  believed  in,  and  PITT  was  urged,  but 
in  vain,  by  the  Duke  of  Richmond  and  others  of  the  Government,  to  arrest  Fox 
for  high  treason. 

The  following  extract  from  the  Political  Memoranda  of  Francis,  fifth  Duke  of 
Leeds,  now  first  printed  from  the  Originals  in  the  British  Museum;  edited  by  Oscar 
Browning,  for  the  Camden  Society,  1884,  is  an  illustration  of  the  rumours  current 
at  the  time,  and  many  years  after. 

"Saty.  24  Novr.  1792.  LORD  ST.  HELENS  dined  with  me.  After  the  Ladies 
were  gone  upstairs  we  conversed  for  some  time  on  Foreign  affairs.  .  .  .  Speak- 
ing of  the  Russian  business  of  last  year  he  reprobated  in  the  strongest  terms 
the  conduct  of  Fox  in  sending  an  agent,  MR.  ADAIR,  to  Petersburg  to  counteract 
the  negociations  of  this  Court  at  that  of  Russia.  He  told  me  he  knew  for 
certain  that  MR.  ADAIR  had  shewn  to  some  English  merchants  at  Petersburg 
the  Empress'  Picture  set  in  diamonds  which  had  been  given  to  him.  That  it 
was  not  one  of  the  sort  usually  given,  but  of  much  greater  value,  being  set 
round  with  large  Brilliants,  and  the  whole  Picture  covered  with  a  Table 
Diamond  instead  of  Chrystal.  That  this  was  a  present  seldom  made  but  on 
some  very  particular  occasion  or  to  some  great  favorite  (I  remember  to  have 
seen  such  a  one  in  the  possession  of  P.  Orlow).  LD.  ST.  H.  thought  it  must 
have  been  worth  six  or  seven  thousand  pounds,  and  of  too  much  value  probably 
to  have  been  meant  for  MR.  ADAIR.  The  conclusion  we  both  very  naturally 
drew  from  this  circumstance  was  not  very  favorable  to  MR.  Fox." 

The  following  additional  particulars  relating  to  the  connection  between 
Fox  and  ADAIR  may  not  be  thought  out  of  place  here.  They  are  extracted 
from  the  highly  interesting  and  important  Croker  Papers,  being  the  Correspondence 
and  Diaries,  1809-1830,  of  the  M.  Hon.  J.  W.  CKOKER,  M.P.,  Edited  by  Louis  J. 
Jennings,  M.P.,  3  vols.,  8vo.,  1884. 

The  first  is  in  these  terms:  "When  ADAIR,  whose  father  was  a  surgeon, 
went  as  Fox's  Ambassador  to  Russia,  LORD  WHITWORTH,  then  the  King's 
Minister,  made  a  good  joke,  which  tended  not  a  little  to  lower  ADAIR,  and 
defeat  his  object.  ''Est-ce  un  homme  tres  considerable,  ce  M.  d'Adair?' 
asked  the  EMPRESS.  '  Pas  trop_,  Madame,'  replied  Lord  Whitworth,  '  quoique 
son  pere  etait  grand  seigneur  [saigneur].'  The  other  is  taken  from  a  very  long 
statement  on  various  matters,  made  by  K.  George  IV.,  when  Prince  of  Wales, 
to  Croker  personally.  Adair's  wife,  the  Prince  said,  was  a  Frenchwoman  with 
whom  ANDKEOSSI,  when  here  as  Buonaparte's  Minister,intrigued.  THE  DUCHESS 
OF  DEVONSHIRE  told  him— the  Prince  of  Wales— that  Mrs.  Adair  had  offered 
her  a  bribe  of  £10,000  down,  and  as  much  more  whenever  she  might  want  it, 
if  she  would  communicate  the  Cabinet  secrets,  with  which  the  French  thought 
she  could  not  fail  to  be  acquainted,  through  her  intimacy  with  all  the  leaders 
of  the  Government.  This  caused  a  breach  between  Fox  and  ADAIR.  But  the 
former  could  only  tell  ADAIR  that  an  obstacle— which  he  could  neither  reveal 
nor  overcome,  but  which  did  not  atfect  or  alter  Fox's  personal  regard  for  him 
— prevented  his  appointment  to  be  Fox's  Under-Secretary  of  State. — Ci-oker 
Papers,  i.  293.— ED.] 


POETRY    OF 


No.  XIII. 

Feb.  5,  1798. 
ACME  AND  SEPTIMIUS;  OB,  THE  HAPPY  UNION 

CELEBRATED  AT  THE  CROWN  AND  ANCHOR  TAVERN. 

Fox, 1  with  TOOKE  to  grace  his  side, 

Thus  address'd  his  blooming  bride — 

"  Sweet !  should  I  e'er,  in  power  or  place, 

Another  Citizen  embrace ; 

Should  e'er  my  eyes  delight  to  look 

On  aught  alive  save  JOHN  HORNE  TOOKE, 

Doom  me  to  ridicule  and  ruin, 

In  the  coarse  hug2  of  Indian  Bruin  !  " 

He  spoke ; 3  and  to  the  left  and  right, 

NORFOLK  hiccupp'd  with  delight. 
TOOKE, 4  his  bald  head  gently  moving, 

On  the  sweet  patriot's  drunken  eyes 

His  wine-empurpled  lips  applies, 
And  thus  returns  in  accents  loving : 
"  So,  my  dear5  CHARLEY,  may  success 
At  length  my  ardent  wishes  bless, 
And  lead,  through  discord's  low'ring  storm, 
To  one  grand  RADICAL  EEFORM  ! 
As,  from  this  hour  I  love  thee  more 
Than  e'er  I  hated  thee  before  !  " 

He  spoke,  and  to  the  left  and  right, 

NORFOLK  hiccupp'd  with  delight. 
With  this  good  omen  they  proceed ; 6 
Fond  toasts  their  mutual  passion  feed ; 


THE    ANTI- JACOBIN.  89 

In  Fox's  breast  HOKNE  TOOKE  prevails 
Before 7  rich  Ireland  and  South  Wales  ;  * 
And  Fox  (unread  each  other  book), 
Is  Law  and  Gospel  to  HOBNE  TOOKE. 

When  were  such  kindred  souls  united  ? 

Or  wedded  pair  so  much  delighted  ? 

.  1  Acmen  Septiinius  suos  amores 

Tenens  in  gremio,  mea,  inquit,  Acme, 
Ni  te  perdite  amo,  &c. 

2  Caesio  veniam  obvius  Leoni. 

3  Hoc  ut  dixit,  Amor  sinistram,  ut  ante 
Dextram,  sternuit  approbationem. 

4  At  Acme  leviter  caput  reflectens, 
Et  dulcis  pueri  ebrios  ocellos 
Illo  purpureo  ore  suaviata, 

Sic,  inquit,  mea  vita,5  Septimille,  &c. 
6  Nunc  ab  auspicio  bono  profecti 
Mutuis  animis  amant,  amantur. 
Unam  Septiinius  miseJlus  Acmen 
Mavult  quam 7  Syrias  Britanniasque.  * 

*  I.e.,  The  Clerkship  of  the  Pells  in  Ireland,  and  Auditorship 
of  South  Wales. 

[ACME  AND  SEPTIMIUS.     FROM  CATULLUS. 
SEPTIMIUS  said,  and  fondly  prest 
The  doating  ACME  to  his  breast : — 
"  My  Acme,  if  I  prize  not  thee 
With  love  as  warm  as  love  can  be, 
With  passion  spurning  any  fears 
Of  growing  faint  in  length  of  years, 
Alone  may  I  defenceless  stand 
To  meet,  on  Lybia's  desert  sand, 
Or  under  India's  torrid  sky, 
The  tawny  lion's  glaring  eye  ! " 
LOVE,  before  who  ntter'd  still 
On  the  left-hand  omens  ill, 
As  he  ceased  his  faith  to  plight 
Laugh'd  propitious  on  the  right. 
Then  ACME  gently  bent  her  head, 
Kiss'd  with  those  lips  of  cherry  red 
The  eyes  of  the  delightful  boy, 
That  swam  with  glistening  floods  of  joy ; 
And  whisper'd  as  she  closely  prest— 
"  SEPTIMIUS,  soul  of  ACME'S  breast, 
Let  all  our  lives  and  feelings  own 
One  lord,  one  sovereign,  Love  alone  ! 
I  yield  to  love,  and  yield  to  thee, 
For  thou  and  love  are  one  to  me. 


90  POETEY   OF 

Though  fond  thy  fervent  heart  may  beat, 
My  feelings  glow  with  greater  heat, 
And  madder  flames  my  bosom  melt 
Than  all  that  thou  hast  ever  felt." — ED.] 

[The  following  account  of  the  celebration  of  Fox's  Birth-day,  printed  in  the 
Anti-Jacobin,  has  not  hitherto  appeared  in  the  editions  of  the  Poetry.  The  Song 
by  Mr.  Fox  refers  to  the  Subscription  raised,  after  a  meeting  at  the  Crown  and 
Anchor,  in  the  summer  of  1793,  for  relieving  him  in  his  then  present  need,  and 
purchasing  an  Annuity  for  him.  A  Caricature  by  GILLRAY  on  this  meeting 
was  published  on  the  12th  June,  1793. 

MR.  FOX'S  BIRTH-DAY. 

The  public,  distracted  with  the  various  accounts  of  the  celebration  of  Mr* 
Fox's  Birth-day,  naturally  turn  to  us  for  an  authentic  detail  of  that  important 
event — from  a  recollection  of  the  correct  and  impartial  statement  we  gave  in  a 
former  Number,  of  what  passed  at  a  MEETING  OF  THE  FRIENDS  OF  FREEDOM 
[page  32]. 

To  justify  their  confidence,  we  have  had  recourse  to  the  Morning  Post  and 
Morning  Chronicle  (the  Courier  being  too  stupid  for  our  purpose),  whose  state- 
ments we  have  carefully  read,  and  corrected  from  the  information  of  several 
gentlemen  who_  were  present.  We  are  thus  enabled  to  lay  before  our  readers  a 
genuine  narrative  of  the  whole  proceeding,  which  we  defy  the  tongue  of  Slander 
to  controvert  in  any  material  noint. 

As  Mr.  Fox's  reputation  had  been  for  some  time  on  the  decline,  it  was 
thought  necessary  by  the  party  (who  are  in  great  want  of  a  Head)  to  make  as 
respectable  an  appearance  as  possible  on  the  present  occasion.  It  was  therefore 
suggested  (at  a  previous  meeting  of  confidential  friends)  that  if  the  unfortunate 
shyness  which  subsisted  between  the  Whig-Club  and  the  Corresponding  Society 
could  be  opportunely  removed  by  a  few  unimportant  concessions  on  the  part  of 
the  former,  such  a  number  of  citizens  might  be  readily  procured  from  that 
respectable  body  a_s  would  serve  to  give  the  day  an  eclat  it  had  not  experienced 
since  the  fatal  schism  of  1792. 

This  hint,  so  reasonable  in  itself,  was_  immediately  adopted,  and  Sir  FRANCIS 
BURDETT,  who  was  well  acquainted  with  their  haunts,  was  ordered  into  the 
neighbourhood  of  Smithfield  with  a  competent  number  of  tickets.  He  was  on 
the  point  of  setting  out,  when  the  Editor  of  the  Morning  Post  observed,  that 
forgery  *  was  so  common  at  present,  that  he  hardly  thought  it  prudent  to  admit 
all  who  might  come  with  a  bit  of  scribbled  paper  :  on  this  it  was  determined  to 
distribute  the  price  of  admission  amongst  a  certain  number  of  people  to  be 
selected  by  the  Envoy : — these,  it  was  rightly  concluded,  would  not  fail  to 
appear,  from  motives  of  vanity,  as  they  could  have  no  other  possible  chance  of 
dining  with  the  Premier  Dupe,  we  would  say  Duke,  in  England.  It  now  re- 
mained to  determine  the  sum  :  this,  after  a  short  discussion,  was  fixed  at  Eight 
Shillings  and  Sixpence  per  head,  "  which,"  said  the  Editor  of  the  Morning  Post, 
"  will  shew  we  cannot  be  persons  of  mean  rank,  since  we  can  afford,  in  hard 
times,  to  give  so  much  for  a  dinner  "  ;  t  and  Citizen  BOSVILLE  was  desired  to 
advance  the  money  upon  the  credit  of  the  Whig  Fund. 

Previous  to  the  meeting,  the  chairman  dispatched  a  note  to  Sir  WILLIAM 
ADDINGTON,  requesting  that  the  Crown  and  Anchor  might  be  exempted  from 
the  visitation  of  his  runners  during  the  morning  of  the  24th  [Jan.,  1798].  To 
this  Sir  WILLIAM  assented,  on  condition  that  it  should  be  recommended  to  the 

[*On  7th  Feb.,  1796,  a,  forged  French  newspaper  called  L' Eclair,  containing 
false  intelligence,  was  circulated  in  London  for  stock-jobbing  purposes.  On  3rd 
July  a  verdict  of  £100  was  given  against  D.  STUART,  proprietor  of  The  Morning 
Post,  for  sending  the  above  paper  to  the  proprietors  of  The  Telegraph,  by  which 
it  was  discredited  ;  and  on  the  following  day,  a  verdict  of  £1500  was  given 
against  Mr.  Dickinson,  for  falsely  accusing  Mr.  Goldsmid,  the  money-broker,  of 
forging  the  above.  It  announced  a  peace  between  Austria  and  France.— ED.] 

t  Morning  Post,  Jan.  25. 


THE  ANTI- JACOBIN.  91 

gentlemen,  to  leave  their  pocket-books  and  watches  at  home,  that  there  might 
be  as  little  temptation  as  possible  to  break  the  peace.  Thus  everything  was 
Arranged  with  a  precaution  that  seemed  to  set  accident  at  defiance. 

Before  four  o clock  the  passage  to  the  LARGE  ROOM  was  crammed,  when, 
on  a  hint  that  dinner  was  on  the  point  of  being  served,  one  of  the  head  waiters 
advanced  to  the  great  door,  and  opened  a  wicket  for  the  admission  of  the  com- 
pany, as  fast  as  they  paid  down  their  money.  Two  or  three  had  already  passed 
in  good  order,  when  Mr.  John  Nicholls  advanced,  and  instead  of  8s.  6d.,  produced 
to  the  astonished  receiver,  seventeen  of  his  PRINTED  SPEECHES,  which,  valuing 
them  at  sixpence  a-piece,  he  contended  would  make  up  the  sum  required. 
These  "assets,"  however,  were  absolutely  rejected ;  and  a  violent  dispute  was 
on  the  point  of  commencing,  when  Sir  CHRISTOPHER  HAWKINS  stept  forward, 
and  whispering  a  few  words,  which  we  did  not  hear,  obtained  leave  for  his 
friend  to  pass.  The  Speeches  were  therefore  deposited,  and  Mr.  NICHOLLS  was 
already  got  within  the  wicket,  when  the  man  suddenly  pulled  him  back  by  the 
coat,  and  the  dispute  recommenced  with  more  violence  than  ever.  Upon  inquiry 
into  the  cause  of  this  new  tumult,  we  found  that  a  wag  (whom  we  afterwards 
discovered  to  be  Mr.  JEKVLL)  had  played  the  member  for  Tregony  a  trick; 
having  taken  an  opportunity,  in  the  crowd,  of  extracting  the  genuine  speeches 
from  the  pocket  of  the  Honourable  Member,  and  replacing  them  by  the  same 
number  of  the  spurious  ones,  printed  for  Mr.  WRIGHT,  the  publisher  of  this 
Paper.  These  the  waiter  very  properly  refused  to  receive,  alleging,  and  indeed 
truly,  that  instead  of  six  pence  a-piece,  the  whole  seventeen  were  not  worth  six 
farthings. 

This  altercation  continued  so  long,  that  the  company  grew  impatient ;  and 
Mr.  BRYAN  EDWARDS,  a  little  ashamed  of  his  friend,  who  still  continued  obsti- 
nate, offered  to  furnish  his  quota.  Harmony  now  seemed  to  be  restored,  when 
all  at  once  a  cry  of  astonishment  broke  forth  that  beggars  all  description.  On 
putting  his  hand  into  his  pocket  for  the  price  of  admission,  Mr.  E.  suddenly 
turned  pale,  and  exclaimed,  "  By  G — ,  gentlemen,  some  of  you  have  picked  my 
pockets  ! "  A  hundred  voices  instantly  repeated  the  same  cry,  and  a  dreadful 
scene  of  confusion  and  uproar  took  place. 

Ardebant  cuncta  et  fracta  compage  ruebant. 

What  the  consequence  would  have  been,  it  is  impossible  to  say,  had  not  the 
waiter,  with  an  air  of  authority,  commanded  the  doors  to  be  shut  at  each  end  of 
the  passage,  and  every  man  to  exhibit  the  contents  of  his  pocket.  A  faint  cry  of 
No  !  No  !  was  over-ruled  ;  and  Sir  FRANCIS  BURDETT  produced  an  old  Red  Cap 
from  the  bosom  of  his  shirt,  which  he  put  into  the  hands  of  the  Duke  of  BEDFORD, 
who  was  appointed  collector-general  \>y  acclamation.  With  this  his  Grace  went, 
from  man  to  man,  executing  his  duty  with  the  utmost  fairness  and  impartiality ; 
and  when  he  had  finished,  poured  out  the  contents  of  the  cap  before  them  all. 
These,  it  must  be  confessed,  were  a  little  heterogeneous,  consisting,  besides  a 
large  sum  of  money,  of  a  brass  knocker  (this  was  iaimediately  claimed  by  the 
landlord),  a  pewter  pot  squeezed  together,  a  pair  of  pattens,  a  pint  decanter,  a 
duck  ready  trussed  for  dressing,  a  great  quantity  of  potatoes,  and  a  vinegar 
cruet.  What  was  most  extraordinary  was,  that  though,  as  his  Grace  afterwards 
declared,  the  money  was  found  in  very  unequal  portions,  yet  the  total  sum, 
which  was  £222,  5s.  6d..  being  divided  among  the  company,  amounting  to  523 
persons,  produced  8s.  6(1.  for  each  individual,  with  the  exception  of  the  Member 
for  Tregony,  who  brought  nothing  but  his  speech,  and  Capt.  MORRIS,  who  pays 
for  everything  with  a  Song. 

Nothing  material  occurred  during  the  Dinner,  which  was  .allowed  to  be  ex- 
cellent of  its  kind,  and  where  no  such  dish  as  Cow-heel  (as  maliciously  reported 
in  The  True  Briton)  made  its  appearance. 

As  soon  as  the  cloth  was  removed,  the  Duke  of  NORFOLK  took  the  Chair 
amidst  repeated  plaudits,*  and  addressed  the  Company  in  these  words  : 

"Three  virtuous  Men,  Citizens,  have  stood  up  in  defence  of  Liberty— MAXI- 
MILIAN ROBESPIERRE,  COLLOT  D'HEiinois,  and  CHARLES  JAMES  Fox :— The  first 
is  guillotined  ;  the  second  transported  to  Cayenne  ;  and  the  third  " Here 

*  Morning  Chronicle,  Jan.  25. 


92 


POETEY   OF 


all  eyes  were  immediately  upon  Mr.  Fox,  who  now  entered  the  room,  supported 
by  Citizens  JOHN  GALE  JONES  and  JOHN  HORXE  TOOKE  — "As  the  Right 
Hon.  Gentleman  (resumed  the  Duke,  a  little  peevishly)  has  mistaken  his  cue, 
and  appeared  sooner  than  he  ought,  I  shall  spare  his  modesty  the  panegyric  I 
was  preparing,  and  shortly  conclude  with  proposing  the  health  of  CHARLES 
JAMES  Fox." — This  was  drank  with  three  times  three. 

As  soon  as  the  clamour  had  subsided,  Mr.  Fox  arose  and  said,  "That 
language,  at  least  any  which  he  could  boast,  was  inadequate  to  the  exquisite 
feelings  of  gratitude  which  at  once  delighted  and  oppressed  him,  at  the  sight 
of  so  numerous  and  so  respectable  a  body  of  free  and  independent  Citizens, 
met  for  a  purpose  which  would  make  this  the  proudest  and  the  happiest  day  of 
his  life".  Having  dwelt  a  little  on  this  idea,  Mr.  Fox  observed,  "  that  he  would 
not  interrupt  the  conviviality  of  the  day  by  a  long  Speech  :  he  knew  there  were 
several  present  who  came  to  hear  him  make  a  long  Speech,  but  he  would  not 
make  a  long  Speech— to  what  purpose  should  he  do  it  ? — what  could  he  add  to 
the  Speech  lately  delivered  by  him,  and  so  faithfully  recorded  in  the  ANTI- 
JACOBIN,  a  contemptible  Publication,  but  one  to  which  the  praise  of  Accuracy 
could  not  be  denied.  The  new  and  extraordinary  circumstances  of  the  times 
called  for  new  and  extraordinary  measures :  he  would,  therefore,  if  they  pleased, 
compress  what  he  had  to  say  into  a.  Song — (loud  applauses)— One  word  only. — 
He  owed  both  the  burden  and  the  idea  of  this  Song  to  the  Morning  Chronicle.  He 
had  yesterday,  the  23rd,  found  there  A  BEGGING  ADDRESS  to  the  Nation,  with 
DATE  OBOLUM  BELISARIO  prefixed  to  it  as  a  Motto.  This  had  pleased  him 
much,  and  this  morning  at  breakfast  he  had  endeavoured  to  adapt  it,  mutatis 
•mutandis,  to  his  own  circumstances:  he  should  now  have  the  honour  of 
giving  it." 

SONG  BY  MR.  Fox. 

To  the  Tune  of 
"  Good  People  of  England,  and  all  who  love  Ale." 

Good  People  of  England,  of  every  degree, 
Lords,  Commoners,  listen,  O  !  listen  to  me  ; 
Republicans,  Royalists,  all— mark  my  ditty — 
You'll  find  I've  a  number  of  claims-on  your  pity- 
Date  Obolum  Belisario. 

Ye  who  heard  me  assert  that  Lord  NORTH,  now  so  mourn'd, 
Was  a  beast  to  be  slmnn'd,  was  a  fool  to  be  scorn'd, 
Yet  who  saw  me,  with  real  or  fancied  alanns, 
Take  the  fool  to  my  councils,  the  beast  to  my  arms, 

Date  Obolum  Belisario. 

Ye  who  heard  me  declare  the  SUBSCRIBERS  of  REEVES 
Were  a  scoundrel  collection  of  cut-throats  and  thieves, 
Yet  who  saw  me  immediately  after  repair, 
And  SUBSCRIBE  at  the  Long-Uoom  in  Hanover  Square, 

Date  Obolum  Belisario. 

Ye  who  heard— when  Invasion  was  close  at  our  door, 
And  Parker  and  Liberty  rul'd  at  the  Nore — 
Ye  who  heard— no  ;  I  mean,  who  DID  NOT  HEAR  me  speak, 
While  SHERIDAN,*  damn  him !  affected  to  squeak, 

Date  Obolum  Belisario. 

Ye  who  heard  me  repeat  that  Resistance,  at  length, 
Was  reduc'd,  by  PITT'S  Bill,  to  a  question  of  Strength, 
And  that  prudence  alone 

We  know  not  how  far  Mr.  Fox  might  have  proceeded,  had  he  not  been  inter- 
rupted by  a  jangling  of  bells  from  the  Side-table  which  immediately  drew  all 
eyes  that  way.  This  proceeded  from  Capt.  MORRIS,  who  had  fallen  asleep 

*  This  appears  to  allude  to  Mr.  SHERIDAN'S  conduct  during  the  Mutiny. 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  93 

daring  Mr.  Fox's  Song,  and  was  now  nodding  on  his  chrur,  with  a  large  paper 
Cap  on  his  head,  ornamented  with  gilt  tassels  and  bells,  which  one  of  the 
company  had  dexterously  whipped  on  unperceived.  The  first  motion  was  that 
of  indignation ;  but  the  stupid  stare  of  the  unconscious  Captain,  who  half 
opened  his  eyes  at  every  sound  of  the  bells  as  his  head  rose  or  fell,  and  im- 
mediately closed  them  again,  somno  rhif»iv.e  graratux,  had  such  a  powerful  effect 
on  the  risible  faculties  of  the  Company,  that  they  broke,  as  if  by  consent,  into 
the  most  violent  and  convulsive  fits  of  laughter ;  Mr.  Fox  himself  not  being 
exempt  from  the  general  contagion. 

As  soon  as  the  Captain  was  made  sensible  of  the  cause  of  this  uproar,  he 
attempted  to  pull  off  the  Cap,  but  was  prevented  by  a  Citizen  from  the  Cor- 
responding Society,  who  maintained  that  the  Company  had  a  right  to  be  amused 
by  the  Captain  in  what  manner  they  pleased  ;  and  that,  as  he  seemed  to  amuse 
them  more  effectually  in  that  xtote  than  in  any  other,  he  insisted,  for  one,  on  his 
continuing  to  wear  the  Cap.  This  was  universally  agreed  to,  with  the  exception 
of  the  Duke  of  NORFOLK.  The  Captain  was  therefore  led  to  the  upper  table, 
•with  all  his  "  jangling  honours  loud  upon  him ! "  Here,  as  soon  as  he  was 
seated,  his  Noble  Friend  called  upon  him  for  a  Song. 

The  Captain  sang  the  "  PLEXii'O  "  in  his  best  manner. 

This  was  received  with  great  applause ;  and  then  the  Duke  gave  "  The 
Defenders — of  Ireland" — (thrte  times  three). 

Captain  MORRIS  then  began 

"  And  all  the  Books  of  Moses"  ; — 

but  was  interrupted,  before  he  had  finished  the  first  line,  by  Mr.  TIERXEY,  who 
declared  he  would  not  sit  there  and  hear  anything  like  ridicule  on  the  Bible.* — 
(Much  coughing  and  scraping.) — Mr.  Erskine  took  God  to  witness,  that  he  thought 
the  Captain  meant  no  harm  ;— and  a  gentleman  from  Cambridge,  whose  name 
we  could  not  learn,  said,  with  great  na'irete,  that  it  was  no  more  than  was  done 
every  day  by  his  acquaintance.  Mr.  TIERNEV,  however,  persisted  in  his  opposi- 
tion to  the  Song,  and  Captain  MORRIS  was  obliged  to  substitute  "Jenny  Sutton" 
in  the  place  of  it 

But  the  good  humour  of  the  company  was  already  broken  in  upon,  and  Mr. 
TIERNEY  soon  after  left  the  room  (to  which  he  did  not  return)  with  greater  marks 
of  displeasure  in  his  face  than  we  ever  remember  to  have  seen  there. 

The  Duke  now  gave  RADICAL  REFORM  (three  times  three,  followed  by  continued 
shouts  of  applauat). 

A  Counsellor  JACKSON  attempted  to  sing  "  Paddy  Whack,"  but  was  soon 
silenced,  on  account  of  his  stupid  perversion  of  the  words,  and  his  bad  voice. 

Citizen  GALE  JONES  then  rose  and  said— that  he  was  no  Orator,  though  he 
got  his  living  by  oratory,  being  Chairman  of  a  Debating  Society.  He  had  also 
written  a  book — which  he  was  told  had  some  merit.  He  did  not  rise  to  recom- 
mend it,  but  he  thought  it  right  to  hint,  that  those  who  wished  for  Constitu- 
tional information  might  be  supplied  with  it  at  the  Bar ;  the  price  was  trifling 
— Eighteen-pence  was  nothing  to  the  majority  of  the  Company ;— to  himself, 
indeed— {here  Mr.  HORNE  TOOKE  called  out  Order  !  Order  !  with  some  marks  of 
impatience) — He  begged  pardon,  he  would  say  no  more — there  was  no  one  whom 
he  valued  like  Mr.  TOOKE,  there  was  no  one  indeed  to  whoni  he  was  under  such 
obligations ;  the  very  shoes  he  had  on  were  charged  by  Citizen  HARDY  to  Mr. 
TOOKE'S  account — >fr.  TOOKE  was  also  a  great  friend  to  a  Radical  Reform — he 
loved  a  Radical  Reform  himself  ;  the  Poor  must  always  love  Radical  Reforms — 
he  should  therefore  beg  leave  to  propose  the  health  of  Mr.  JOHN  HORXE  TOOKE. 
— (Three  tinus  three.) 

Mr.  TOOKE  rose,  and  spoke  nearly  as  follows  :  "You  all  know,  Citizens,  in 
what  detestation  I  once  held  the  Man  whose  Birth-day  we  are  now  met  to 
commemorate.  You  cannot  yet  have  forgot  the  'Two  PAIR  OF  PORTRAITS'  I 
formerly  published,  nor  "the  glaring  light  in  which  I  hung  up  him  and  his 
father  to  the  execration  of  an  indignant  posterity.  You  must  also  be  apprized 
of  the  charges  of  Corruption,  Insurrection, and  Murder  (much  h its! ng  and  applause, 

*This  is  not  the  first  time  that  we  have  heard  of  Mr.  TIERXEY'S  discourage- 
ment of  impiety.  However  we  may  disapprove  of  this  gentleman's  political 
principles,  we  are  not  insensible  to  the  merit  of  such  conduct. 


94  POETBY    OF 

the  latter  predominant)  which  I  brought  against  him,  justly,  as  I  must  still  think, 
at  a  former  Election  for  Westminster.  How  happens  it  then,  you  will  say,  that  I 
now  come  forward  to  do  him  honour?  I  will  tell  you.  At  the  last  Election  for 
Westminster,  I  had  still  my  suspicions  of  his  sincerity  ;  he  appeared  too  anxious 
to  preserve  measures  with  the  spruce  and  powdered  Aristocrats  who  usually 
attended  him  to  the  Hustings  ;  nor  was  it  till  the  fourth  or  fifth  day  before  the 
close  of  the  Poll,  that  those  suspicions  were  removed.  Aware  that  he  was 
losing  ground  among  the  People,  he  determined  to  make  one  great  effort  to 
re-establish  his  popularity.  He  therefore  came  forward,  and  addressed  the 
free  and  independent  Electors  in  front  of  the  Hustings,  in  a  Speech,  of  which 
the  remembrance  yet  warms  my  heart.  From  that  moment,  I  marked  him  as 
my  own  !  Retractation  was  impossible ;  and  the  panegyric  he  lately  delivered 
on  a  Radical  Reform,  in  a  House  which  I  despise  too  much  to  name,  was  the 
natural  and  inevitable  consequence  of  that  day's  declaration.  You  may  remem- 
ber, that  when  I  addressed  my  Friends,  I  only  said,  '  Gentlemen,  Mr.  Fox  has 
spoken  my  sentiments  ;  he  has  even  gone  beyond  them — but  I  thank  him '. — 
What  I  then  said  I  now  repeat,  with  regard  to  his  Speech  on  a  late  occasion — 

'  I  AM  MOST  PERFECTLY  SATISFIED  WITH  HIS  CONDUCT  ;  NOR  DO  I  WISH  TO 
ADVANCE  ONE  STEP  IN  THE  CAUSE  OF  REFORM,  BEYOND  WHAT  MR.  FOX  HAS 
PLEDGED  HIMSELF  TO  GO  !  !  ! '  " 

Mr.  TOOKE  then  begged  leave  to  propose  Mr.  Fox's  health  for  the  second 
time,  and  sat  down  amidst  a  thunder  of  applause.  + 

The  Duke  of  NORFOLK  observed  to  the  Company,  that  as  they  had  drunk  the 
health  of  a  Man  dear  to  the  People,  he  would  now  call  upon  them  to  drink  the 
health  of  their  Sovereign* — here  a  hiccup  interrupted  his  Grace,  and  a  most  vio- 
lent cry  of  "  No  Sovereign !  no  Sovereign  f "  resounded  through  the  room,  and  con- 
tinued for  several  minutes,  notwithstanding  the  earnest  entreaties  of  the  Duke  to 
be  heard.  Order  was,  however,  restored  at  length,  when  his  Grace  gently  chid 
the  Company  for  taking  advantage  of  a  slight  infirmity  of  nature,  to  impute  a 
design  to  him  which  was  wholly  foreign  from  his  heart — (loud  applause).  He 
augured  well,  ho\yever,  of  their  patriotism,  and  would  now  afford  them  an  op- 
portunity of  repairing  the  injury  they  had  done  him,  by  giving  the  Toast  as  he 
intended— "  THE  HEALTH  OF  OUR  SOVEREIGN — THE  MAJESTY  OF  THE  PEOPLE  ".§ 
— (Loud  and  incessant  shouts  of  applause.) 

A  disgusting  scene  of  uproar  and  confusion  followed,  which  we  shall  not 
attempt  to  detail.  The  Chairman  sank  under  the  table  in  a  state  of  stupefaction, 
and  the  rest  of  the  Company,  maddened  alike  with  noise  and  wine,  committed 
a  thousand  outrages,  till  they  were  literally  turned  into  the  streets  by  the 
Waiters.  As  many  of  them  as  could  speak  were  conducted  home  by  the  watch- 
men ;  others  were  conveyed  "  in  silent  majesty  "  to  the  Round-house  ;  and  not 
a  few  of  them  slept  out  the  remainder  of  the  night  upon  the  steps  of  the  neigh- 
bouring houses.  The  Reporters  of  the  Jacobin  Papers  were  sought  out,  and 
conveyed  home  by  the  pressmen,  devils,  &c.,  and  one  poor  youth,  whom  we  after- 
wards found  to  be  a  Writer  in  the  Morning  Chronicle  (hired  for  the  day  by  The 
True  Briton)  \\  had  his  pockets  picked  of  a  clean  white  Handkerchief  and  a 
Notebook,  after  being  severely  beaten  for  deserting  his  former  Employers. 

*  Morning  Post,  Jan.  25.  t  Morning  Chronicle,  Jan.  25. 

J  Morning  Chronicle,  Morning  Post,  Morning  Herald,  &c. 

§  The  Company  seem  to  have  recollected  (had  It  is  Grace  forgotten  ?  )  that  the 
DUKE  of  NORFOLK  has  another  SOVEREIGN,  to  whom  he  has  recently,  more 
than  once,  sworn  Allegiance  ;  and  under  whom  he  now  holds  the  LIEUTENANCY 
of  the  WEST  RIDING  of  the  COUNTY  OF  YORK,  and  the  Command  of  a  REGIMENT 
of  MILITIA. 

||  See  The  True  Bnton,  of  Thursday,  Jan.  25. 


TlvLOYALTOAST. 


THE    ANTI- JACOBIN.  95 

No.  XIV. 

Feb.  12,  1798. 

IT  has  been  our  invariable  custom  to  suppress  such  of 
our  correspondents'  favours  as  conveyed  any  compliments 
to  ourselves;  and  we  have  deviated  from  it  in  the  present 
instance,  not  so  much  out  of  respect  to  the  uncommon 
excellence  of  the  Poem  before  us,  as  because  it  agrees  so 
intimately  with  the  general  design  of  our  paper — to  ex- 
pose the  deformity  of  the  French  Eevolution,  to  counter- 
act the  detestable  arts  of  those  who  are  seeking  to  intro- 
duce it  here,  and  above  all,  to  invigorate  the  exertions  of 
our  countrymen  against  every  Foe,  foreign  and  domestic, 
by  showing  them  the  immense  and  inexhaustible  resources 
they  yet  possess  in  British  Courage  and  British  Virtue  ! 

TO 
THE  AUTHOE   OF  THE  ANTI-JACOBIN. 

FOE  TO  THY  COUNTBY'S  FOES  !  'tis  THINE  to  claim 
From  Britain's  genuine  sons  a  British  fame — 
Too  long  French  manners  our  fair  isle  disgraced ; 
Too  long  French  fashions  shamed  our  native  taste. 
Still  prone  to  change,  we  half-resolved  to  try 
The  proffered  charms  of  FBENCH  FRATERNITY. 

Fair  was  her  form,  and  FREEDOM'S  honour'd  name 
Conceal'd  the  horrors  of  her  secret  shame  : 
She  claim'd  some  kindred  with  that  guardian  pow'r, 
Long  worshipp'd  here  in  Britain's  happier  hour : 
Virtue  and  Peace,  she  said,  were  in  her  train, 
The  long-lost  blessings  of  ASTR^A'S  reign — 
But  soon  the  vizor  dropp'd — her  haggard  face 
Betray 'd  the  FURY  lurking  in  the  GRACE — 


96  POETRY    OF 

The  false  attendants  that  behind  her  press'd, 

In  vain  disguised,  the  latent  guilt  confess'd : 

PEACE  dropt  her  snow-white  robe,  and  shudd'ring  show'd 

AMBITION'S  mantle  reeking  fresh  with  blood ; 

Presumptuous  FOLLY  stood  in  EEASON'S  form, 

Pleased  with  the  power  to  ruin, — not  reform ; 

PHILOSOPHY,  proud  phantom,  undismay'd, 

With  cold  regard  the  ghastly  train  survey'd ; 

Saw  PERSECUTION  gnash  her  iron  teeth, 

While  Atheists  preach'd  the  eternal  sleep  of  death  ; 

Saw  ANARCHY  the  social  chain  unbind, 

And  DISCORD  sour  the  blood  of  human  kind  ; 

Then  talk'd  of  Nature's  Eights,  and  Equal  Sway ; 

And  saw  her  system  safe — AND  STALK'D  AWAY  ! 

FoiPd  by  our  ARMS,  where'er  in  ARMS  we  met, 
With  ARTS  LIKE  THESE  the  foe  assails  us  yet. 
Hopeless  the  fort  to  storm,  or  to  surprise, 
More  secret  wiles  his  envious  malice  tries ; 
Diseas'd  himself,  spread  wide  his  own  despair, 
Pollutes  the  fount,  and  taints  the  wholesome  air. 

While  many  a  Chief,  to  glory  not  unknown, 
Alarms  each  hostile  shore,  and  guards  our  own, 
'Tis  THINE,  the  latent  treachery  to  proclaim ; 
An  humbler  warfare,  but  the  cause  the  same. 
In  vain  had  POMPEY  crush'd  the  PONTIC  HOST, 
And  chas'd  the  pirate  swarm  from  every  coast ; 
The  crew  that  leagu'd  their  country  to  o'erthrow ; 
The  base  confederates  of  a  GALLIC  *  foe ; 

*  Conjuravere  Gives  nobilissimi  Patriam  incendere — Gallorwm 
gentem  infestissimam  nomini  Komano  in  bellum  arcessunt — 
Dux  Hostium  cum  exercitu  supra  caput  est. — ORAT.  CATON.  ap. 
SALLUST. 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  97 

Had  not  the  Civic  Consul's  watchful  eye 
Track'd  through  the  windings  of  conspiracy, 
Exposed,  confounded,  shamed,  and  forced  away, 
The  "JACOBIN  EEFOKMEE *  of  his  day ". 

Tis  THINE  a  subtler  mischief  to  pursue, 
And  drag  a  deeper,  darker,  plot  to  view ; 
Whate'er  its  form,  still  ready  to  engage, 
Detect  its  malice,  or  resist  its  rage ; 
Whether  it  whispers  low,  or  raves  aloud, 
In  sneers  profane,  or  blasphemies  avow'd ;  f 
Insults  its  King,  reviles  its  Country's  cause, 
And,  'scaped  from  Justice,  braves  the  lenient  Laws : 
Whate'er  the  hand  in  desperate  faction  bold, 
By  native  hate  inspired,  or  foreign  gold ; 
Traitors  absolved,  and  libellers  released, 
The  recreant  Peer,  or  renegade  Priest ; } 
The  Sovereign-people's  cringing,  crafty  slave, 
The  dashing  fool,  and  instigating  knave, 
Each  claims  thy  care ;  nor  think  the  labour  vain — 
VERMIN  HAVE  SUNK  THE  SHIP  THAT  RULED  THE  MAIN. 

*  Turn  Catilina  polliceri  tabvdas  novas,  proscriptionem  locu- 

Eletium,    Magistrates,    Sacerdotia,    rapinas,    alia   omnia   quse 
elluin  atque  lubido  Victoruni  fert. — SALLUST. 

[  f  "  A  Correspondent  cautions  us  against  making  a  profane 
use  of  MR.  WILBERFORCE'S  appearance  on  Sunday ;  that  gentle- 
man would  not  have  been  so  ungodly  as  to  gallop  there  without 
a  sufficient  reason — it  was  the  fulfilment  of  some  Prophecy ; 
and  the  horse  he  rode  might  be  related  to  the  White  Horse  of 
the  Revelations." — Morning  Chronicle,  Jan.  11,  1798. — ED.] 

[J  This  refers  to  Charles  Howard,  eleventh  DUKE  OF  NORFOLK, 
(who  gave,  at  a  public  dinner,  the  famous  toast  of  "  Our  Sove- 
reign's health,  the  Majesty  of  the  People,")  and  to  John  Home 
Tooke,  who  was  a  regularly  ordained  clergyman,  ai.d  had  been 
tried  for  High  Treason  and  acquitted. — ED.] 

7 


98  POETBY    OF 

'Tis  THINE,  with  Truth's  fair  shield  to  ward  the  blow, 
And  turn  the  weapon  back  upon  the  foe : 
To  trace  the  skulking  fraud,  the  candid  cheat, 
That  can  retract  the  falsehood,  yet  repeat ; 
To  wake  the  listless,  slurab'ring  as  they  lie, 
Lapt  in  th'  embrace  of  soft  security ; 
To  rouse  the  cold,  re-animate  the  brave, 
And  shew  the  cautious  all  they  have  to  save. 

Erect  that  standard  ALFBED  first  unfurl'd, 
Britain's  just  pride,  the  wonder  of  the  world ; 
Whose  staff  is  Freedom's  spear,  whose  blazon'd  field 
Beams  with  the  CHRISTIAN  CROSS,  the  EEGAL  SHIELD  ; 
That  standard  which  the  PATRIOT  BARONS  bore, 
Eestored,  from  EUNIMEDE'S  resounding  shore ; 
Which  since  consign'd  to  WILLIAM'S  guardian  hand, 
Waved  in  new  splendour  o'er  a  grateful  land ; 
Which  oft  in  vain  by  force  or  fraud  assail'd, 
Has  stood  the  shock  of  ages — and  prevail'd. 

Yes !  the  BRIGHT  SUN  OF  BRITAIN  yet  shall  shine — 
The  clouds  are  earth-born,  but  his  fire  divine ; 
That  temperate  splendour,  and  that  genial  heat, 
Shall  still  illume,  and  cherish  Empire's  Seat ; 
WThile  the  red  Meteor,  whose  portentous  glare 
Shot  plagues  infectious  through  the  troubled  air ; 
Admired,  or  fear'd  no  more,  shall  melt  away, 
Lost  in  the  radiance  of  HIS  BRIGHTER  DAY  ! 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  99 

LINES. 

Written  under  the  Bust  of  Charles  Fox  at  the  Grown 
and  Anchor. 

I'll  not  sell  Uncle  NOLL,  Charles  Surface  cries ; — 
I'll  not  sell  CHABLEY  Fox,  John  Bull  replies  : 
Sell  him,  indeed  !  who'll  find  me  such  another  ? — 
Fox  is  above  all  price ;  so  hold  your  pother. 

Morning  Post,  Feb.  6. 

To  make  our  readers  some  amends  for  this  miserable 
doggrel,  we  will  present  them,  in  our  turn,  with  some 
lines  written  under  a  bttst,  NOT  at  the  Crown  and  Anchor, 
by  an  ENGLISH  TRAVELLER  just  returned  from  Peters- 
burgh.  We  believe  they  are  more  just ;  we  are  certain 
they  are  more  poetical. 

LINES. 

Written  by  a  Traveller  at  Czarco-zelo  under  the  Bust  of  a  certain 
Orator,  once  placed  between  those  of  Demosthenes  and  Cicero. 

I. 

THE  GRECIAN  Orator  of  old, 
With  scorn  rejected  PHILIP'S  laws, 

Indignant  spurn'd  at  foreign  gold, 
And  triumph'd  in  his  country's  cause. 

ii. 

A  foe  to  every  wild  extreme, 
'Mid  civil  storms,  the  Koman  Sage 

Eepress'd  Ambition's  frantic  scheme, 
And  check'd  the  madding  people's  rage. 

in. 

Their  country's  peace,  and  wealth  and  fame, 
With  patriot  zeal  their  labours  sought, 


100  POETKY   OF 

And  Home's  or  Athens'  honoured  name 
Inspired  and  govern'd  every  thought. 

IV. 

Who  now,  in  this  presumptuous  hour, 
Aspires  to  share  the  Athenian's  praise  ? 

— The  advocate  of  foreign  power, 
The  ^schines  of  later  days. 

v. 

What  chosen  name  to  Tully's  join'd, 
Is  thus  announced  to  distant  climes  ? 

— Behold,  to  lasting  shame  consign'd, 
The  Catiline  of  modern  times  !  * 

[*  These  lines  allude  to  the  Empress  Catherine's  placing 
in  her  gallery  the  bust  of  Fox  between  those  of  Demosthenes 
and  Cicero,  as  a  token  of  gratitude  for  his  exertions  in  de- 
feating the  project  of  PITT,  who,  in  conjunction  with  Prussia 
and  Holland,  had,  in  1791,  prepared  a  powerful  armament 
to  compel  her  to  give  up  Ockzakow,  which  she  had  seized. 
The  Court  party  delighted  in  stigmatizing  Fox  as  the  modern 
Catiline.  "  But  the  part  which  he  took  in  parliament  subse- 
quent to  1793,  (says  Sir  N.  W.  Wraxall),  and  the  eulogiums 
lavished  by  him  on  the  French  Revolution,  soon  changed  the 
Empress's  tone.  She  caused  the  bust  to  be  removed  ;  and 
when  reproached  with  such  a  change  in  her  conduct,  she  replied, 
'  C'etoit  Monsieur  Fox  de  Quatre-vingt-onze  que  j'ai  place  dans 
mon  cabinet '." — Wraxall's  Posthumous  Memoirs,  vol.  L,  pp.  435, 
436. 

"  It  seems  to  have  escaped  general  notice,  (says  Sir  James 
Prior  in  his  Life  of  Burke),  that  the  misfortunes  of  Poland  in 
her  final  partition  may  be,  in  some  degree,  attributed,  however 
undesignedly  on  their  part,  to  Mr.  Fox  and  the  Opposition, 
in  the  strong  and  unusual  means  made  use  of  to  thwart  Mr. 
Pitt  in  the  business  of  Ockzakow.  They  lay  claim,  it  is  true, 
to  the  merit  of  having  prevented  war  on  that  occasion.  But 
if  war  had  then  taken  place  with  England  for  one  act  of  vio- 
lence comparatively  trivial,  Russia,  in  all  probability,  would 
not  have  ventured  upon  a  second  and  still  greater  aggression, 
involving  the  existence  of  a  nation,  with  the  certainty  of  a 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN. 


101 


second  war.  Nothing,  after  all,  might  have  saved  Poland  from 
the  combination  then  on  foot  against  her  ;  but  it  is  certain 
that  Mr.  Pitt,  from  recent  experience,  had  little  encouragement 
to  make  the  attempt." 

It  is  a  curious  circumstance  that,  though  the  plate  illus- 
trating these  Lines  was  published,  according  to  its  inscription, 
on  the  17th  March,  1792,  the  five  stanzas  engraved  on  it  are 
identical  with  those  which  appeared  in  the  Anti-Jacobin  of 
12th  Feb.,  1798,  though  these  were  introduced  as  written  "  by 
an  English  Traveller  just  [sic]  returned  from  Petersburgh  ". 

Assuming  the  date  on  the  engraving  to  be  correct,  we  might 
account  for  the  parachronism  on  the  supposition  that  the  author 
of  the  earlier  plate-stanzas  availed  himself  of  the  appearance 
of  the  Lines  written  under  the  Bust  of  Charles  Fox  at  the  Crown 
and  Anchor  to  reproduce  them — six  years  afterwards— with  a  few 
verbal  alterations,  to  adapt  them  to  a  later  period — and  with  an 
equivocal  statement  as  to  the  period  of  their  first  production. 

The  following  are  the  alterations  in  the  reprinted  version  : — 

Stanza  2  line  3,  frantic  for  lawless. 

3  1,  their  country's  for  domestic. 

3  1,  and  wealth  and  for  external. 

3  3,  honoured  for  sacred. 

4  1,  now  for  then. 

4  3,  advocate  for  tool  confessed. 

4  4,  later  for  modern. 

5  2,  thus  for  now. 

5  4,  Catiline  for  Cataline. 

5      ,    4,  modern  for  later. — ED.] 


102  POETRY   OF 


No.  XV. 

Feb.  19,  1798. 
THE  PEOGEESS  OF  MAN.* 


IN  FORTY  CANTOS,  WITH  NOTES  CRITICAL  AND  EXPLANATORY  : 
CHIEFLY  OF  A  PHILOSOPHICAL  TENDENCY. 

DEDICATED   TO   R.   P.   KNIGHT,    ESQ. 

CANTO  FIRST. 

CONTENTS.  —  The  Subject  proposed.  —  Doubts  and  Waverings. 

—  Queries  not  to  be  answered.  —  Formation  of  the  stupendous 
Whole.  —  Cosmogony  ;   or  the  Creation  of  the  World  :  —  the 
Devil—  Man—  Various  Classes  of  Being:  —  ANIMATED  BEINGS 

—  Birds—  Fish  —  Beasts  —  the  Influence  of  the  Sexual  Appe- 
tite—on  Tigers—  on  Whales—  On  Crimpt  Cod  —  on   Perch  — 
on  Shrimps—  on  Oysters.  —  Various  Stations  assigned  to  dif- 
ferent Animals  :  —  Birds—  Bears  —  Mackerel.  —  Bears   remark- 
able for  their  fur  —  Mackerel  cried  on  a  Sunday  —  Birds  do 
not  graze  —  nor  Fishes  fly  —  nor  Beasts  live  in  the  Water.  — 
Plants  equally  contented  with  their  lot  :  —  Potatoes  —  Cabbage 

—  Lettuce  —  Leeks  —  Cucumbers.  —  MAN    only    discontented  — 
born    a    Savage  ;    not   choosing    to    continue    so,    becomes 
polished  —  resigns  his  Liberty  —  Priest  -craft  —  King  -craft  — 
Tyranny    of    Laws    and    Institutions.  —  Savage   Life  —  de- 
scription thereof  :  —  The  Savage  free  —  roaming  Woods  —  feeds 
on  Hips  and  Haws  —  Animal  Food  —  first  notion  of  it  from 
seeing  a  Tiger  tearing  his   prey  —  wonders  if  it  is  good  — 
resolves  to  try  —  makes   a  Bow  and  Arrow  —  kills  a  Pig  — 
resolves  to  roast  a  part  of  it  —  lights  a  fire  —  APOSTROPHE  to 
fires  —  Spits   and   Jacks   not   yet   invented.  —  Digression.  — 
CORINTH  —  SHEFFIELD.  —  Love,  the  most  natural  desire  after 
Food.  —  Savage   Courtship.  —  Concubinage    recommended.  — 
Satirical  Reflections  on  Parents  and  Children  —  Husbands 


[*  Written  to  ridicule  Richard  Payne  Knight's  Progress  of 
Civil  Society,  a  Didactic  Poem,  in  Six  Books.  London,  1796, 
4to.— ED.] 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  103 

and  Wives — against  collateral  Consanguinity. — FREEDOM  the 
only  Morality,  &c.  &c.  &c. 

WHETHER  some  great,  supreme  o'er-ruling  Power 

Stretch'd  forth  its  arm  at  Nature's  natal  hour, 

Composed  this  mighty  whole  with  plastic  skill, 

Wielding  the  jarring  elements  at  will  ? 

Or  whether,  sprung  from  Chaos'  mingling  storm,  5 

The  mass  of  matter  started  into  form  ? 

Or  Chance  o'er  earth's  green  lap  spontaneous  fling 

The  fruits  of  autumn  and  the  flowers  of  spring  ? 

Whether  material  substance  unrefined, 

Owns  the  strong  impulse  of  instructive  mind,  10 

Which  to  one  centre  points  diverging  lines, 

Confounds,  refracts,  invig'rates,  and  combines  ? 

Whether  the  joys  of  earth,  the  hopes  of  heaven, 

By  man  to  God,  or  God  to  man,  were  given? 

If  virtue  leads  to  bliss,  or  vice  to  woe  ?  15 

Who  rules  above,  or  who  reside  below  ? 

Ver.  3.  A  modern  author  of  great  penetration  and  judgment 
observes  very  shrewdly,  that  "the  cosmogony  of  the  world 
has  puzzled  the  philosophers  of  all  ages.  What  a  medley  of 
opinions  have  they  not  broached  upon  the  creation  of  the 
world.  Sanconiathon,  Manetho,  Berosus,  and  Ocellus  Lucanus 
have  all  attempted  it  in  vain.  The  latter  has  these  words — 
Anarchon  ara  kai  ateleutaion  to  pan—  which  imply,  that  all  things 
have  neither  beginning  nor  end."  See  Goldsmith's  Vicar  of 
Wakefield :  see  also  Mr.  Knight's  Poem  on  the  Progress  of  Civil 
Society. 

Ver.  12.  The  influence  of  Mind  upon  Matter,  comprehending 
the  whole  question  of  the  Existence  of  Mind  as  independent 
of  Matter,  or  as  co-existent  with  it,  and  of  Matter  considered 
as  an  intelligent  and  self-dependent  Essence,  will  make  the 
subject  of  a  larger  Poem  in  127  Books,  now  preparing  under 
the  same  auspices. 

Ver.  14.  See  Godwin's  Enquirer;  Darwin's  Zoonomia;  Paine; 
Priestley,  &c.  &c. ;  also  all  the  French  Encyclopaedists. 

Ver.  16.  Qucestio  spinosa  et  contortula. 


104  POETBY   OF 

Vain  questions  all — shall  man  presume  to  know  ? 
On  all  these  points,  and  points  obscure  as  these, 
Think  they  who  will, — and  think  whate'er  they  please  ! 

Let  us  a  plainer,  steadier  theme  pursue —  20 

Mark  the  grim  savage  scoop  his  light  canoe ; 
Mark  the  dark  rook,  on  pendent  branches  hung, 
With  anxious  fondness  feed  her  cawing  young. — 
Mark  the  fell  leopard  through  the  desert  prowl, 
Fish  prey  on  fish,  and  fowl  regale  on  fowl ; —  25 

How  Lybian  tigers'  chawdrons  love  assails, 
And  warms,  'midst  seas  of  ice,  the  melting  whales  ; — 
Cools  the  crimpt  cod,  fierce  pangs  to  perch  imparts, 
Shrinks  shrivell'd  shrimps,  but  opens  oysters'  hearts ; — 
Then  say,  how  all  these  things  together  tend  30 

To  one  great  truth,  prime  object,  and  good  end  ? 

First — to  each  living  thing,  whate'er  its  kind, 
Some  lot,  some  part,  some  station  is  assign'd. 
The  feather'd  race  with  pinions  skim  the  air — 
Not  so  the  mackerel,  and  still  less  the  bear ;  35 

This  roams  the  wood,  carniv'rous  for  his  prey  ! 
That  with  soft  roe  pursues  his  icatery  way  : 

Ver.  26.  "Add  thereto  a  tiger's  chawdron." — Macbeth. 

Ver.  26,  27.  "  In  softer  notes  bids  Lybian  lions  roar, 

And  warms  the  whale  on  Zembla's  frozen  shore." 
Progress  of  Civil  Society,  Book  I.  ver.  98. 

Ver.  29.  "An  oyster  inay  be  crossed  in  love." — Mr.  Sheridan's 
Critic. 

Ver.  34.  Birds  fly. 

Ver.  35.  But  neither  fish,  nor  beasts — particularly  as  here 
exemplified. 

Ver.  36.  The  bear. 

Ver.  37.  The  mackerel — there  are  also  hard-wed  mackerel. 
Sed  de  his  alio  loco. 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  105 

This,  slain  by  hunters,  yields  his  shaggy  hide  ; 
That,  caught  by  fishers,  is  on  Sundays  cried. — 

But  each  contented  with  his  humble  sphere,  40 

Moves  unambitious  through  the  circling  year ; 
Nor  e'er  forgets  the  fortune  of  his  race, 
Nor  pines  to  quit,  or  strives  to  change  his  place. 
Ah  !  who  has  seen  the  mailed  lobster  rise, 
Clap  her  broad  wings,  and  soaring  claim  the  skies  ?       45 
When  did  the  owl,  descending  from  her  bow'r, 
Crop,  'midst  the  fleecy  flocks,  the  tender  flow'r ; 
Or  the  young  heifer  plunge,  with  pliant  limb, 
In  the  salt  wave,  and  fish-like  strive  to  swim  ? 

The  same  with  plants — potatoes  'tatoes  breed —        50 
Uncostly  cabbage  springs  from  cabbage  seed ; 
Lettuce  to  lettuce,  leeks  to  leeks  succeed ; 
Nor  e'er  did  cooling  cucumbers  presume 
To  flow'r  like  myrtle,  or  like  violets  bloom. 
— Man,  only, — rash,  refined,  presumptuous  man,  55 

Starts  from  his  rank,  and  mars  creation's  plan. 

Ver.  88.  Bear's  grease,  or  fat,  is  also  in  great  request ;  being 
supposed  to  have  a  criniparous,  or  hair-producing  quality. 

Ver.  39.  There  is  a  special  Act  of  Parliament  which  permits 
mackerel  to  be  cried  on  Sundays. 

Ver.  45  to  49.  Every  animal  contented  with  the  lot  which 
it  has  drawn  in  life.  A  tine  contrast  to  man,  who  is  always 
discontented. 

Vtr.  49.  Salt  wave — wave  of  the  sea — "briny  leave". — Poetae 
passim. 

Ver.  50.  A  still  stronger  contrast,  and  a  greater  shame  to 
man,  is  found  in  plants ; — they  too  are  contented — he  restless 
and  changing.  M ens  agitat  mihi,  nee  placida  contenta  quiete  est. 

Ver.  50.  Potatoes  'tatoes  breed.  Elision  for  the  sake  of  verse, 
not  meant  to  imply  that  the  root  degenerates. — Not  so  with  man — 

Mox  daturus 
Progeniem  vitiosiorem. 


106  POETRY   OF 

Born  the  free  heir  of  nature's  wide  domain, 
To  art's  strict  limits  bounds  his  narrow'd  reign ; 
Eesigns  his  native  rights  for  meaner  things, 
For  faith  and  fetters — laws,  and  priests,  and  kings.       60 
(To  be  continued.) 

We  are  sorry  to  be  obliged  to  break  off  here.  The 
remainder  of  this  admirable  and  instructive  Poem  is  in 
the  press,  and  will  be  continued  the  first  opportunity. 

THE   EDITOR. 

[The  following  is  the  commencement  of  Knight's  poem  :— 

Whether  primordial  motion  sprang  to  life 

From  the  wild  war  of  elemental  strife  ; 

In  central  chains  the  mass  inert  confined, 

And  sublimated  matter  into  mind  : 

Or,  whether  one  great  all-pervading  soul 

Moves  in  each  part  and  animates  the  whole  ; 

Unnumbered  worlds  to  one  great  centre  draws, 

And  governs  all  by  pre-established  laws  : 

Whether  in  fates'  eternal  fetters  bound, 

Mechanic  nature  goes  her  endless  round  : 

Or  ever  varying,  acts  but  to  fulfil 

The  sovereign  mandates  of  Almighty  will  ;— 

Let  learned  folly  seek,  or  foolish  pride, 

Rash  in  presumptuous  ignorance,  decide. — ED.] 

[Eminent  as  Richard  Payne  Knight  was  as  a  classical  scholar  and  archaeolo- 
gist, his  poetical  powers  were  not  highly  appreciated  by  his  literary  contem- 
poraries, as  is  amusingly  shown  in  a  letter  from  Horace  Walpole,  dated  22nd 
March,  1796,  to  the  Rev.  W.  Mason,  in  which  he  declares  how  much  he  is 
"offended  and  disgusted  by  Mr.  Knight's  new,  insolent,  and  self-conce_ited 
poem  ".  He  winds  up  thus  :  "  I  send  you  a  parody  on  two  lines  of  Mr.  Knight, 
which  will  show  you  that  his  poem  is  seen  in  its  true  light  by  a  young  man  of 
allowed  parts,  MR.  CANNING,  whom  I  never  saw.  The  originals  are  the  two 
first  lines  at  the  top  of  page  5  : " — 

"Some  fainter  irritations  seem  to  feel, 

Which  o'er  its  languid  fibres  gently  steal ". — KNIGHT. 
"  Cools  the  crimp'd  cod,  to  pond-perch  pangs  imparts, 
Thrills  the  shelled  shrimps,  and  opens  oysters'  hearts." — CANNING. 

It  is  evident  from  this  that  Canning  had  thought  of  parodying  the  poem  im- 
mediately after  its  publication,  and  that  Walpole  had  seen  a  specimen  in  manu- 
script, nearly  two  years  before  its  publication  in  the  Anti-Jacobin,  in  which  the 
two  lines  (28,  29)  are  thus  altered  : — 


crimpt  cod,  fierce  pangs  to  perch  imparts, 
irivell'd  shrimps,  but  opens  oysters'  hearts 


'  Cools  the  cr 
Shrinks  shrivell'd  shrimps,  but  opens  oysters'  hearts' 


By  an  ove 
butes  the 

1794,  entitled 

excited  Walpole's  high  indignation    by  expressing  opinions  opposed  to  his 
own.— ED.] 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  107 


No.  XVI. 

Feb.  26,  1798. 

THE  specimen  of  the  poem  on  the  "Progress  of  Man," 
with  which  we  favoured  our  Eeaders  in  our  last  Number, 
has  occasioned  a  variety  of  letters,  which  we  confess  have 
not  a  little  surprised  us,  from  the  unfounded,  and  even 
contradictory  charges  they  contain.  In  one,  we  are 
accused  of  Malevolence,  in  bringing  back  to  notice  a 
work  that  had  been  quietly  consigned  to  oblivion; — in 
another,  of  Plagiarism,  in  copying  its  most  beautiful 
passages ; — in  a  third,  of  Vanity,  in  striving  to  imitate 
what  was  in  itself  inimitable,  &c.,  &c.  But  why  this 
alarm  ?  has  the  author  of  the  "  Progress  of  Civil  Society  " 
an  exclusive  patent  for  fabricating  Didactic  poems?  or 
can  we  not  write  against  Order  and  Government  without 
incurring  the  guilt  of  Imitation  ?  We  trust  we  were  not 
so  ignorant  of  the  nature  of  a  didactic  poem  (so  called 
from  didaskein,  to  teach,  and  poema,  a  poem ;  because  it 
teaches  nothing,  and  is  not  poetical)  even  before  the 
"  Progress  of  Civil  Society  "  appeared,  but  that  we  were 
capable  of  such  an  undertaking. 

We  shall  only  say  further,  that  we  do  not  intend  to 
proceed  regularly  with  our  Poem ;  but  having  the  re- 
maining thirty-nine  Cantos  by  us,  shall  content  ourselves 
with  giving,  from  time  to  time,  such  extracts  as  may 
happen  to  suit  our  purpose. 

The  following  passage,  which,  as  the  reader  will  see 
by  turning  to  the  Contents  prefixed  to  the  head  of  the 
Poem,  is  part  of  the  First  Canto,  contains  so  happy  a 


108  POETBY   OF 

deduction  of  MAN'S  present  state  of  Depravity,  from 
the  first  slips  and  failings  of  his  Original  State,  and 
inculcates  so  forcibly  the  mischievous  consequences  of 
social  or  civilized,  as  opposed  to  natural  society,  that 
no  dread  of  imputed  imitation  can  prevent  us  from  giving 
it  to  our  readers. 

PEOGEESS  OF  MAN. 

Lo !  the  rude  savage,  free  from  civil  strife, 
Keeps  the  smooth  tenour  of  his  guiltless  life ; 
Eestrain'd  by  none,  save  Nature's  lenient  laws, 
Quaffs  the  clear  stream,  and  feeds  on  hips  and  haws. 
Light  to  his  daily  sports  behold  him  rise !  65 

The  bloodless  banquet  health  and  strength  supplies. 
Bloodless  not  long — one  morn  he  haps  to  stray 
Through  the  lone  wood — and  close  beside  the  way 
Sees  the  gaunt  tiger  tear  his  trembling  prey  ; 
Beneath  whose  gory  fangs  a  leveret  bleeds,  70 

Or  pig — such  pig  as  fertile  China  breeds. 

Struck  with  the  sight,  the  wondering  savage  stands, 
Eolls  his  broad  eyes,  and  clasps  his  lifted  hands  ! 
Then  restless  roams — and  loaths  his  wonted  food ; 
Shuns  the  salubrious  stream,  and  thirsts  for  blood.        75 

By  thought  matured,  and  quicken'd  by  desire, 

Ver.  61 — 66.  Simple  state  of  savage  life — previous  to  the 
pastoral,  or  even  the  hunter  state. 

Ver.  66.  First  savages  disciples  of  Pythagoras. 

Ver.  67,  &c.  Desire  of  animal  food  natural  only  to  beasts, 
or  to  man  in  a  state  of  civilized  society.  First  suggested  by 
the  circumstances  here  related. 

Ver.  71.  Pigs  of  the  Chinese  breed  most  in  request. 

Ver.  76.  First  formation  of  a  bow.  Introduction  of  the 
science  of  archerv. 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  109 

New  arts,  new  arms,  his  wayward  wants  require. 

From  the  tough  yew  a  slender  branch  he  tears, 

With  self-taught  skill  the  twisted  grass  prepares ; 

Th'  unfashioned  bow,  with  labouring  efforts  bends         80 

In  circling  form,  and  joins  th'  unwilling  ends. 

Next  some  tall  reed  he  seeks — with  sharp-edg'd  stone 

Shapes  the  fell  dart,  and  points  with  whiten'd  bone. 

Then  forth  he  fares.     Around  in  careless  play, 
Kids,  pigs,  and  lambkins  unsuspecting  stray ;  85 

With  grim  delight  he  views  the  sportive  band, 
Intent  on  blood,  and  lifts  his  murderous  hand. 
Twangs  the  bent  bow — resounds  the  fatoful  dart, 
Swift- wing'd,  and  trembles  in  a  porker's  heart. 

Ah,  hapless  porker  !  what  can  now  avail  90 

Thy  back's  stiff  bristles,  or  thy  curly  tail  ? 
Ah  !  what  avail  those  eyes  so  small  and  round, 
Long  pendent  ears,  and  snout  that  loves  the  ground  ? 

Not  unreveng'd  thou  diest ! — in  after  times 
From  thy  spilt  blood  shall  spring  unnumber'd  crimes.  95 
Soon  shall  the  slaught'rous  arms  that  wrought  thy  woe, 
Improved  by  malice,  deal  a  deadlier  blow ; 

Ver.  79.  Grass  twisted,  used  for  a  string,  owing  to  the  want 
of  other  materials  not  yet  invented. 

Ver.  83.  Bone — fish's  bone  found  on  the  sea-shore,  shark's 
teeth,  &c.  &c. 

Ver.  90.  Ah  !  what  avails,  &c. — See  Pope's  Description  of  the 
death  of  a  Pheasant. 

Ver.  93.  "  With  leaden  eye  that  loves  the  ground." 

Ver.  94.  The  first  effusion  of  blood  attended  with  the  most 
dreadful  consequences  to  mankind. 

Ver.  97.  Social  Man's  wickedness  opposed  to  the  simplicity 
of.  savage  life. 


110 


POETRY   OF 


When  social  man  shall  pant  for  nobler  game, 

And  'gainst  his  fellow  man  the  vengeful  weapon  aim. 

As  love,  as  gold,  as  jealousy  inspires,  100 

As  wrathful  hate,  or  wild  ambition  fires, 
Urged  by  the  statesman's  craft,  the  tyrant's  rage, 
Embattled  nations  endless  wars  shall  wage, 
Vast  seas  of  blood  the  ravaged  field  shall  stain, 
And  millions  perish — that  a  king  may  reign  !  105 

For  blood  once  shed,  new  wants  and  wishes  rise ; 
Each  rising  want  invention  quick  supplies. 
To  roast  his  victuals  is  man's  next  desire, 
So  two  dry  sticks  he  rubs,  and  lights  a  fire. 
Hail  fire,  &c.  &c. 

V(,r.  100,  101.  Different  causes  of  war  among  men. 
Ver.  106.  Invention  of  fire — first  employed  in  cookery,  and 
produced  by  rubbing  dry  sticks  together. 


THE   ANTI- JACOBIN.  Ill 


No.  XVII. 

March  5,  1798. 

WE  are  obliged  to  a  learned  correspondent  for  the 
following  ingenious  imitation  of  BION. — We  will  not 
shock  the  eyes  of  our  fair  readers  with  the  original 
Greek,  but  the  following  Argument  will  give  them  some 
idea  of  the  nature  of  the  Poem  here  imitated. 

ARGUMENT. 

Venus  is  represented  as  bringing  to  the  Poet,  while  sleeping, 
her  son  Cupid,  with  a  request  that  he  would  teach  him 
Pastoral  Poetry — Bion  complies,  and  endeavours  to  teach 
him  the  rise  and  progress  of  that  art : — Cupid  laughs  at 
his  instructions,  and  in  his  turn  teaches  his  master  the 
Loves  of  Men  and  Gods,  the  Wiles  of  his  Mother,  &c. — 
"  Pleased  with  his  lessons,"  says  BION,  "  I  forgot  what  I 
lately  taught  Cupid  and  recollect  in  its  stead  only  what 
Cupid  taught  me." 

IMITATION,  &c.* 

WRITTEN    AT    ST.    ANNE'S    HILL. 

SCARCE  had  sleep  my  eyes  o'erspread, 
Ere  Alecto  sought  my  bed  ; 
In  her  left  hand  a  torch  she  shook, 
And  in  her  right  led  JOHN  HORNE  TOOKE. 
O  thou !  who  well  deserv'st  the  bays, 
Teach  him,  she  cried,  Sedition's  lays — 
She  said,  and  left  us ;  I,  poor  fool, 


[*  Written  in  the  character  of  C.  J.  Fox,  at  his  seat,  St. 
Anne's  Hill,  near  Chertsey.  during  his  secession  from  Parlia- 
ment from  1797  to  1802.  His  fondness  for  the  Greek  Poets 
is  well  known. — ED.] 


112  POETRY    OF 

Began  the  wily  priest  to  school ; 
Taught  him  how  MOIBA  sung  of  lights, 
Blown  out  by  troops  o'  stormy  nights ;  * 
How  ERSKINE,  borne  on  rapture's  wings, 
At  clubs  and  taverns  sweetly  sings 
Of  self — while  yawning  Whigs  attend — 
Self  first,  last,  midst,  and  without  end  ;  f 
How  BEDFORD  piped,  ill-fated  Bard ;  J 
Half-drown'd,  in  empty  Palace-yard  ; 
How  LANSDOWNE,  nature's  simple  child, 

[*  Alluded  to  at  page  79.— ED.] 

[f  Erskine  was  noted  for  his  intense  vanity,  which  procured 
him  the  nickname  of  Ego.  Sir  John  Bowring,  who  knew  him  well, 
gives  in  his  Autobiography  several  instances  of  this  peculiarity, 
one  of  which  is  here  inserted.  "  The  master-string  of  his  mind 
was  vanity;  its  vibrations  trembling  to  the  very  end  of  his 
existence.  He  said,  '  When  the  Emperor  Alexander  came  to 
England,  Lord  Granville  told  me  that  the  Emperor  wished  to 
see  me.  I  went.  He  received  me  with  particular  attention, 
and  said  he  was  very  anxious  to  make  my  acquaintance.  He 
spoke  English  as  well  as  you  do.  "  You  are  a  friend  and  cor- 
respondent," he  said,  "  of  my  most  valued  friend  La  Harpe  ?  " 
"  Yes,  sire."  " Is  he  a  regular  correspondent  ?  "  "Yes,  a  very 
kind  one."  "  Has  he  been  so  of  late  ?  "  "  Well,  if  your  Majesty 
will  cross-examine  me,  I  must  own  he  owes  me  a  letter."  He 
put  his  hand  into  his  pocket,  and  drew  forth  a  letter  addressed 
to  me.  "  Yes,  there  is  his  answer.  I  intercepted  it  that  I 
might  have  the  pleasure  of  knowing  Lord  Erskine."  I  gave 
Alexander  all  my  writings  and  speeches,  which  he  received 
with  many  expressions  of  satisfaction.'  " — ED.] 

[J  On  April  3,  1797,  an  open-air  meeting  of  the  inhabitants 
of  Westminster  was  held  in  Palace  Yard,  during  very  inclement 
weather  (Westminster  Hall  having  been  shut  against  them  by 
order  of  the  keeper),  to  consider  of  an  address  to  his  Majesty 
to  dismiss  PITT'S  ministry.  Fox  and  the  Duke  of  Bedford  took 
part  in  the  proceedings.  Meetings  were  held  about  the  same 
time  all  over  the  country  for  the  same  object. — ED.] 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  113 

At  BOWOOD  trills  his  wood-notes  wild — * 
How  these  and  more  (a  phrenzied  choir) 
Sweep  with  bold  hand  Confusion's  lyre, 
Till  madding  crowds  around  them  storm 

"  FOB   ONE   GRAND   RADICAL   REFORM  !  " 

TOOKE  stood  silent  for  a  while, 
Listening  with  sarcastic  smile ; 
Then  in  verse  of  calmest  flow, 
Sung  of  treasons,  deep  and  low, 
Of  rapine,  prisons,  scaffolds,  blood, 
Of  war  against  the  great  and  good ; 
Of  Venice,  and  of  Genoa's  doom, 
And  fall  of  unoffending  Eome ; 
Of  monarchs  from  their  station  hurl'd, 
And  one  waste  desolated  world. 

Charm'd  by  the  magic  of  his  tongue, 
I  lost  the  strains  I  lately  sung, 
While  those  he  taught,  remain  impress'd 
For  ever  on  my  faithful  breast. 

DORUS. 

[*  After  Lord  Shelburne's  resignation  of  the  office  of  Prime 
Minister,  consequent  on  the  coalition  of  Fox  and  Lord  North, 
he  was  created  Marquis  of  Lansdowne,  and  withdrew  almost 
entirely  from  public  life,  passing  his  time  principally  at  his 
magnificent  seat,  Bowood,  near  Calne,  Wiltshire.— ED.] 

[BION.    IDYLLIUM  III.    THE  TEACHEB  TAUGHT. 

TRANSLATED   BY   FAWKES. 

As  late  I  slumbering  lay,  before  my  sight 
Bright  VENUS  rose  in  visions  of  the  night : 
She  led  young  Cupid ;  as  in  thought  profound 
His  modest  eyes  were  fixed  upon  the  ground ; 
And  thus  she  spoke :   "  To  thee,  dear  swain,  I  bring 
My  little  son ;  instruct  the  boy  to  sing ". 
8 


114  POETRY    OF 

No  more  she  said ;  but  vanished  into  air, 

And  left  the  wily  pupil  to  my  care : 

I, — (sure  I  was  an  idiot  for  my  pains), 

Began  to  teach  him  old  bucolic  strains ; 

How  PAN  the  pipe,  how  PALLAS  formed  the  flute, 

PHCEBUS  the  lyre,  and  MERCURY  the  lute : 

LOVE,  to  my  lessons  quite  regardless  grown, 

Sang  lighter  lays,  and  sonnets  of  his  own, 

Th'  amours  of  men  below,  and  gods  above, 

And  all  the  triumphs  of  the  queen  of  love. 

I,  sure  the  simplest  of  all  shepherd  swains, 

Full  soon  forgot  my  old  bucolic  strains ; 

The  lighter  lays  of  LOVE  my  fancy  caught, 

And  I  remembered  all  that  Cupid  taught. — ED.] 


SOMETHING  like  the  same  idea  seeins  to  have  dictated 
the  following  Stanzas,  which  appear  to  be  a  loose  imita- 
tion of  the  beautiful  Dialogue  of  Horace  and  Lydia,  and 
for  which,  though  confessedly  in  a  lower  style  of  poetry, 
and  conceived  rather  in  the  slang,  or  Brentford  dialect, 
than  in  the  classical  Doric  of  the  foregoing  Poem,  wre 
have  many  thanks  to  return  to  an  ingenious  academical 
correspondent. 

THE  NEW  COALITION.1 

i. 

Fox. — When  erst  I  coalesced  with  North 
And  brought  my  Indian  bantling  forth 2 
In  place — I  smiled  at  faction's  storm, 
Nor  dreamt  of  radical  reform. 

n. 

TOOKE. — While  yet  no  patriot  project  pushing, 
Content  I  thump'd  old  Brentford's  cushion, 
I  pass'd  my  life  so  free  and  gaily  ; 
Not  dreaming  of  that  d d  Old  Bailey. 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  115 

III. 

Fox. — Well !  now  my  favourite  preacher's  Nickle,3 

He  keeps  for  PITT  a  rod  in  pickle ; 

Tlis  gestures  fright  th'  astonish'd  gazers, 

His  sarcasms  cut  like  Packwood's  razors. 

IV. 

TOOKE. — Thelwall's*  my  man  for  state  alarm; 
I  love  the  rebels  of  Chalk  Farm  ; 
Eogues  that  no  statutes  can  subdue, 
Who'd  bring  the  French,  and  head  them  too. 

v. 

Fox. — A  whisper  in  your  ear,  JOHN  HORNE,S 
For  one  great  end  we  both  were  born, 
Alike  we  roar,  and  rant,  and  bellow — 
Give  us  your  hand,  my  honest  fellow. 

VI. 

TOOKE. — Charles,  for  a  shuffler  long  I've  known  thee  : 
But  come — for  once,  I'll  not  disown  thee ; 
And  since  with  patriot  zeal  thou  burnest, 
With  thee  I'll  live — or  hang  in  earnest. 


[HORACE.     BOOK  III.,  ODE  IX. 

HORACE. — Whilst  I  was  fond,  and  you  were  kind, 
Nor  any  dearer  youth,  reclined 
On  your  soft  bosom,  sought  to  rest, 
Not  Persia's  monarch  was  so  blest. 

LYDIA. — Whilst  you  adored  no  other  face, 
Nor  loved  me  in  the  second  place, 
Your  Lydia's  celebrated  fame 
Outshone  the  Koman  Ilia's  name. 

HORACE. — Me  Chloe  now  possesses  whole ; 

Her  voice  and  lyre  command  my  soul : 
Nor  would  I  death  itself  decline, 
Could  I  redeem  her  life  with  mine. 


116  POETRY   OP 

LYDIA. — For  me  young  lovely  Calais  burns, 

And  warmth  for  warmth  my  heart  returns. 
Twice  would  I  life  for  him  resign, 
Could  his  be  ransomed  thus  with  mine. 

HORACE. — What  if  the  God,  whose  bands  we  broke, 
Again  should  tame  us  to  the  yoke  ! 
What  if  my  Ghloe  cease  to  reign, 
And  Lydia  her  lost  power  regain  ! 

LYDIA. — Though  Phosphor  be  less  fair  than  he; 
Thou  wilder  than  the  raging  sea; 
Lighter  than  down ;   yet  gladly  I 
With  thee  would  live,  with  thee  would  die. — ED.] 


[Another  version  of  this  Ode  published  in  the  Anti-Jacobin 
Review,  vol.  1,  pp.  597-8  (the  successor  to  the  Anti- Jacobin), 
may  perhaps  not  be  considered  out  of  place  here.  It  was 
written  by  the  Eev.  C.  E.  Stewart,  a  constant  contributor  to 
the  former  journal. 

THE  HONEY-MOON  OF  Fox  AND  TOOKE. 
Donee  gratus  eram  tibi. 

Fox. — Since  Fox  of  his  Tooke  is  possest, 

No  sorrows  my  bosom  can  harass ; 
What  Director  was  ever  so  blest  ? 
I'm  greater,  far  greater  than  Barras. 

TOOKE. — If  Fox  to  his  consort  is  true, 

And  this  blest  Coalition  sincere, 
I'll  engage  as  a  private  with  you, 
Nor  envy  thy  fame,  Robespierre. 

Fox. — You  once  were  the  worst  of  my  foes, 

E'en  Pitt  I  detested  not  more, 
When  you  dar'd  my  Election  oppose, 
And  eternal  antipathy  swore. 

TOOKE. — Not  to  you  was  my  hatred  confin'd, 

Your  father  I  styled  "The  Defaulter," 
Drew  a  portrait  of  both,  and  consign'd 
Both  father  and  son  to  the  halter. 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  117 

Fox. — Drive  these  hated  reflections  away  ; 

For  you  I  would  gladly  resign. 
Jockey  Norfolk,  big  Bedford,  and  Grey; 
But  they  answer  your  purpose  and  mine. 

TOOKE. — Whate'er  you  attempt  or  intend, 

I  am  yours,  and  will  bring  at  your  call, 
Binns,  Gurney,  Scott,  Ferguson,  Frend, 
Corresponding  Society — all. 

BOTH. — Thus  reconcil'd,  fond,  and  delighted, 

Together  we'll  ride  in  the  storm, 
While  Jacobin  Clubs,  all  united, 

Make  a  radical,  perfect  Reform. — ED.] 


NOTES  TO  THE  "NEW  COALITION". 

I1  The  Secret  History  of  Fox's  coalition  with  LORD  NORTH, 
his  former  adversary, — a  proceeding  which  entailed  on  him 
much  odium, — was  first  brought  to  light  by  the  publication  of 
the  "Memorials  and  Correspondence  of  Charles  James  Fox," 
begun  by  the  late  Lord  Holland,  and  edited  by  Earl  Russell. 
It  was  occasioned  by  his  disgust  at  the  conduct  of  the  Earl  of 
Shelburne,  for  while  Fox  as  one  of  the  Secretaries  of  State 
under  the  Rockingham  Administration  was  treating  with  Dr. 
Franklin  for  peace  with  the  United  States  through  the  agent  of 
the  Cabinet  (Thomas  Grenville)  Lord  Shelburne,  the  other 
Secretary  of  State,  was,  through  his  agent  Oswald,  privately 
thwarting  his  measures,  and  that  with  the  concurrence  of  the 
King  !  The  consequence  of  the  Coalition  was  the  fall  of  Lord 
Shelburne's  ministry,  and  Fox  and  Lord  North's  "  taking  the 
Treasury  by  storm". — ED.] 

[2  The  India  Bill  brought  in  by  Fox,  shortly  after  his  acces- 
sion to  office,  was  the  signal  for  his  downfall.  The  Bill  passed 
the  House  of  Commons  by  large  majorities,  but  when  it  reached 
the  Lords,  the  King,  who  hated  Fox,  empowered  Earl  Temple 
to  declare  that  he  would  consider  everyone  who  supported  the 
measure  as  personally  his  enemy.  The  Bill  was  consequently 
lost  on  the  second  reading  by  a  majority  of  eighty-seven  against 
twenty-nine.  The  Coalition  Ministry  resigned,  and  PITT,  then 
in  his  23rd  year,  became  Prime  Minister.] 


118  POETRY    OP 

[3  JOHN  NICHOLLS,  M.P.  for  Tregony,  was  blind  of  one  eye, 
and  altogether  remarkably  ugly.  His  delivery  was  ungraceful, 
and  his  action  generally  much  too  vehement.  He  wrote  Recol- 
lections and  Reflections  during  the  Reign  of  George  III.,  2  vols.  8vo., 
1822.  His  hostile  pamphlet  on  the  Income  Tax  is  marked  by 
great  ability. — ED.] 

[4  On  the  14th  April,  1794,  THELWALL  was  in  the  chair  at  a 
supper  of  one  of  the  Divisions  of  the  Keformers,  and  blowing 
off  the  head  of  a  pot  of  porter  said,  "  This  is  the  way  I  would 
have  all  kings  served  ". — ED.] 

[5  JOHN  HORNE  TOOKE  was  educated  for  the  Church,  and  in 
1760  became  vicar  of  New  Brentford.  Resigning  this  he  studied 
the  Law,  but  being  a  clergyman  was  refused  admission  to  the 
Bar.  At  first  he  supported  PITT,  then  a  promising  Reformer, 
publishing  in  1788  his  "  Two  Pair  of  Portraits,"  disadvan- 
tageously  contrasting  Fox  and  his  father  with  Pitt  and  his 
father.  But  Pitt  not  fulfilling  his  hopes,  he  became  his  bitter 
opponent  and  softened  his  animosity  towards  Fox.  In  1775  he 
was  imprisoned  for  a  libel  on  the  king's  troops  in  America.  In 
1790  he  was  an  unsuccessful  candidate  for  Westminster ;  the 
other  candidates  being  Fox  and  Admiral  Sir  Alan  Gardner.  In 
1794  he  was  tried,  in  company  with  THELWALL  and  others,  for 
high  treason,  when  all  were  acquitted.  In  1796  he  again  stood 
for  Westminster,  and  failed ;  but  in  1801  he  obtained  a  seat  in 
Parliament  for  Old  Sarum,  on  the  nomination  of  Lord  Camel- 
ford.  A  remarkable  memoir  of  him  was  contributed  to  the 
Quarterly  Review,  vol.  7,  by  Lord  Dudley,  Secretary  for  Foreign 
Affairs  in  Canning's  administration,  1827-8. — ED.] 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  119 


No.  XVIII. 

March  12,  1798. 

WE  are  indebted  for  the  following  exquisite  imitation  of 
one  of  the  most  beautiful  Odes  of  Horace,  to  an  unknown 
hand.  All  that  we  can  say  is,  that  it  came  to  us  in  a 
blank  cover  sealed  with  a  ducal  coronet,  and  that  it 
appears  evidently  to  be  the  production  of  a  mind  not 
more  classical  than  convivial. 

ODE. 

WHITHER,  0  Bacchus,  in  thy  train,* 
Dost  thou  transport  thy  votary's  brain 

With  sudden  inspiration  ? 
Where  dost  thou  bid  me  quaff  my  wine, 
And  toast  new  measures  to  combine 

The  Great  and  Little  Nation  1 
Say,  in  what  tavern  I  shall  raise  t 
My  mighty  voice  in  Charley's  praise, 

And  dream  of  future  glories, 
When  Fox,  with  salutary  sway 
(Terror  the  Order  of  the  Day), 

Shall  reign  o'er  King  and  Tories  ? 

HOK.     LIB.  III.,  CAKM.  XXV. 

DITHYRAMBUS. 

*  Quo  me,  Bacche,  rapis,  tui 

Plenum?  quae  nemora,  aut  quos  agor  in  specus, 

Velox  mente  nova  ? 

f  Quibus 

Antris  egregii  Caesaris  audiar 
Eternum  meditans  decus 
Stellis  inserere,  et  consilio  Jovis  ? 


120  POETKY    OF 

My  mighty  feelings  must  have  way  !  * 
A  toast  I'll  give — a  thing  I'll  say, 

As  yet  unsaid  by  any, — 

"Gun  SOV'EBIGN  LOKD!" — let  those  who  doubt 
My  honest  meaning,  hear  me  out — 

"His  MAJESTY — THE  MANY!" 

Plain  folks  may  be  surprised,  and  stare, t 
As  much  surprised  as  BOB  ADAIE 

At  Eussia's  wooden  houses ; 
And  Eussian  snows,  that  lie  so  thick ;  J 
And  Eussian  boors  §  that  daily  kick, 

With  barbarous  foot,  their  spouses. 

What  joy,  when  drunk,  at  midnight's  hour,)) 
To  stroll  through  Covent  Garden's  bow'r, 

Its  various  charms  exploring ; 
And,  'midst  its  shrubs  and  vacant  stalls, 
And  proud  Piazza's  crumbling  walls, 

Hear  trulls  and  watchmen  snoring  ! 


*  Dicam  insigne,  recens,  adhuc 
Indie  turn  ore  alio. 

f  Non  secus  in  jugis 
Exsornnis  stupet  Evias, 
Hebrum  prospiciens, 

J  et  nive  candidam 
Thracen,  ac  pede  barbaro 
Lustratam  Rhodopen. 

§  There  appears  to  have  been  some  little  mistake  in  the 
Translator  here — Rhodope  is  not,  as  he  seems  to  imagine,  the 
name  of  a  woman,  but  of  a  mountain,  and  not  in  Russia.  Pos- 
sibly, however,  the  Translator  may  have  been  misled  by  the 
inaccuracy  of  the  traveller  here  alluded  to. 

||  Ut  mini  devio 
Rupes,  et  vacuum  nemus 
Mirari  libet ! 


THE   ANTI- JACOBIN.  121 

Parent  of  wine,  and  gin,  and  beer,* 
The  nymphs  of  Billingsgate  you  cheer ; 

Naiads  robust  and  hearty ; 
As  Brookes's  chairmen  fit  to  wield 
Their  stout  oak  bludgeons  in  the  field, 

To  aid  our  virtuous  party. 

Mortals  !  no  common  voice  you  hear ;  f 
Militia  Colonel,  Premier  Peer, 

Lieutenant  of  a  County  ! 
I  speak  high  things  !  yet,  god  of  wine, 
For  thee,  I  fear  not  to  resign 

These  gifts  of  royal  bounty. 

*  O  Naiadum  potens 
Baccharumque  valentium 
Proceras  inanibus  vertere  fraxinos. 
t  Nil  parvum,  aut  huniili  modo, 

Nil  mortale  loquar.     Dulce  periculum  est, 

0  Lenaee,  sequi  deum 

Cingentem  viridi  tempora  pampino. 


[HORACE.  BOOK  III.,  ODE  XXV.  TO  BACCHUS. 

TRANSLATED   BY   FRANCIS. 

Whither  in  sacred  ecstasy, 

BACCHUS,  when  full  of  thy  divinity, 

Dost  thou  transport  me  ?     To  what  glades  ? 

"What  gloomy  caverns,  unfrequented  shades? 

In  what  recesses  shall  I  raise 

My  voice  to  sacred  Caesar's  deathless  praise, 

Amid  the  stars  to  bid  him  shine, 

Ranked  in  the  councils  of  the  powers  divine  ? 

Some  bolder  song  shall  wake  the  lyre, 

And  sounds  unknown  its  trembling  strings  inspire. 

Thus  o'er  the  steepy  mountains'  height, 

Starting  from  sleep,  thy  priestess  takes  her  flight : 

Amazed,  behold  the  Thracian  snows, 

With  languid  streams  where  icy  Heber  flows 

Or  Rhodop^'s  high-towering  head, 


122  POETRY   OF 

Where  frantic  choirs  barbarian  measures  tread. 

O'er  pathless  rocks,  through  lonely  groves, 

With  what  delight  my  raptured  spirit  roves ! 

O  thou,  who  rul'st  the  Naiad's  breast ; 

By  whom  the  Bacchanalian  maids,  possessed 

With  sacred  rage  inspired  by  thee, 

Tear  from  the  bursting  glebe  th'  uprooted  tree ; 

Nothing  or  low,  or  mean,  I  sing, 

No  mortal  sound  shall  shake  the  swelling  string. 

The  venturous  theme  my  soul  alarms ; 

But  warmed  by  thee  the  thought  of  danger  charms. 

When  vine-crowned  Bacchus  leads  the  way, 

What  can  his  daring  votaries  dismay  ? — ED.] 

[The  preceding  Ode,  written  in  the  character  of  Charles  Howard,  eleventh 
DUKE  OF  NORFOLK,  refers  to  the  famous  toast,  "  Our  Sovereign's  health— THE 
MAJESTY  OF  THE  PEOPLE,"  proposed  by  his  Grace  at  a  Banquet  at  the  "Crown 
and  Anchor  Tavern,"  Strand,  on  the  24th  January,  1798,  given  to  celebrate  the 
birthday  of  C.  J.  Fox.  For  this  toast  and  other  sentiments  promulgated  at 
the  meeting,  his  Grace  a  few  days  after  received  notice  of  his  dismissal  from 
the  Lord-Lieutenancy  of  the  West  Riding  of  Yorkshire  and  his  Colonelcy  in 
the  Militia,  and  on  the  6th  of  February  Earl  Fitzwilliam  was  gazetted  to  the 
former  office,  vice  the  Duke  of  Norfolk,  resiyned.  But  sixteen  years  earlier,  this 
Toast  was  not  considered  seditious  ;  for  in  the  Gtneral  Advertiser  of  the  13th  of 
April,  1782,  then  edited  by  Perry  (afterwards  the  eminent  proprietor  of  the 
Morning  Chronicle),  we  find  an  account  of  a  dinner  of  the  electors  of  Westminster 
held  the  preceding  day  at  the  Shakespeare  Tavern,  Earl  F'dzwiUiam  in  the 
chair.  The  first  toast  given  by  his  Lordship  was,  "THE  MAJESTY  OF  THE 
PEOPLE".  It  was  drunk  by  the  Earl  of  Effingham,  the  Earl  of  Surrey  (after- 
wards Duke  of  Norfolk,  and  the  subject  of  the  present  remarks),  Mr.  Secretary 
Fox,  Burke,  Windham,  Dean  Jebb,  J.  Churchill,  Brand  Hollis,  Dr.  Brocklesby, 
&c.  Thus  the  identical  toast  was  proposed  and  drunk  by  the  Earl  of  Fitz- 
william, to  whom  the  Lord-Lieutenancy  now  taken  from  the  Duke  of  Norfolk 
was  given.  It  is  not  a  little  remarkable  that  Lord  Fitzwilliam  himself  was 


dismissed  by  his  new  Tory  allies,  Oct.  23,  1819,  from  the  same  Lord-Lieutenancy 
of  the  Svest  Riding  of  Yorkshire,  having  signed  the  requisition  for  the  York 
meeting,  at  which  resolutions  were  passed  condemning  the  measures  of  Ministers 


(Lords  "Liverpool,  Eldon,  Bathurst,  Castlereagh,  Pahnerston,  &c.),  respecting 
the  Manchester  Reform  Meeting,  called  by  Henry  Hunt,  on  16th  August,  at 
which  occurred  what  is  known  as  the  "  Peterloo  Massacre  ".— ED.] 

["  THE  MAJESTY  OF  THE  PEOPLE,"  AS  GIVEN  ON  Fox's  BIRTHDAY. 

The  company  was  a  very  large  one,  but  the  estimated  number  of  2000  diners 
is  surely  an  error.  The  Duke  of  Norfolk  presided,  supported  by  the  Duke  of 
Bedford,  the  Earls  of  Lauderdale  and  Oxford,  Sheridan,  Tierney,  Erskine, 
Capt.  Morris  (who  produced  three  new  songs  for  the  occasion),  and  Home 
Tooke  ;  the  latter  became  reconciled  to  Fox  by  the  explanation  the  latter  gave 
of  his  sentiments  on  parliamentary  reform.  On  the  cloth  being  removed,  he 
rose  and  said,  "  We  are  met  in  a  moment  of  most  serious  difficulty  to  celebrate 
the  birth  of  a  man  dear  to  the  friend  of  freedom.  I  shall  only  recall  to  your 
memory  that  not  twenty  years  ago,  the  illustrious  GEORGE  WASHINGTON 
had  not  more  than  two  thousand  men  to  rally  round  him  when  his  country 
was  attacked.  America  is  now  free.  This  day  full  two  thousand  men  are 
assembled  in  this  place.  I  leave  the  application  to  you.  I  propose  to  you  the 
health  of  CHARLES  JAMES  Fox." 

In  the  course  of  the  evening  the  Duke's  health  was  drunk  with  great  en- 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  123 

thnsiasm.    He  returned  thanks,  and  concluded  his  speech  with  these  words, 
"Give  me  leave  to  call  on  you  to  drink,  Our  Sovereign's  health, 
"THE  MAJESTY  OF  THE  PEOPLE". 

After  this  toast  had  been  drunk  and  warmly  applauded,  the  Duke  gave  succes- 
sively, "  The  Rights  of  the  People,"  "Constitutional  Redress  of  the  VVrongsof  the 
People,"  "  A  speedy  and  effectual  Reform  in  the  Representation  of  the  People 
in  Parliament,"  "  The  genuine  Principles  of  the  British  Constitution,"  "The 
People  of  Ireland,  and  may  they  be  speedily  restored  to  the  Blessings  of  Law 
and  Liberty  ". 

On  the  6th  of  February,  the  next  monthly  meeting  of  the  Whig  Club  was  held 
at  the  London  Tavern,  Ludgate  Hill.  The  DUKE  OF  NORFOLK  presided.  He 
gave  as  a  toast,  "  The  Man  who  dares  be  honest  in  the  worst  of  times  — 

"CHARLES  JAMES  Fox". 
Fox  returned  thanks,  and  then  toasted 

"THE  SOVEREIGNTY  OF  THE  PEOPLE". 

He  subsequently  proposed  the  health  of  the  Duke  of  Norfolk  in  a  most 
powerful  speech.  He  adverted  to  the  dismissal  of  the  DUKE.  "  No  reason  had 
been  officially  assigned ;  it  was,  however,  generally  understood  that  it  had  arisen 
from  the  eulogium  pronounced  on  GE.NEKAL  WASHINGTON.  Was  it  to  be 
wondered  at,  that  the  noble  Duke,  who  had  uniformly  opposed  the  American 
war,  should  have  done  so?  What  Englishman,  what  man  of  any  country,  whose 
heart  was  animated  with  a  love  of  freedom,  did  not  venerate  the  name  of  that 
illustrious  patriot?  It  seems  also  "  a  toast "  has  given  offence— the  Majesty  of 
the  People.  I  do  not  know  upon  what  times  we  are  fallen,  but  the  sovereignty 
of  the  people  of  Great  Britain  is  surely  a  thing  not  new  to  the  language,  to  the 
feelings,  nor  the  hearts  of  Englishmen.  It  is  the  basis  of  the  whole  system  of 
our  Government.  It  is  an  opinion,  which  if  it  be  not  true,  King  William  was 
an  usurper.  By  what  right  did  the  glorious  and  immortal  King  William  the 
Third,  whose  portrait  is  placed  on  our  chair,  come  to  the  throne  of  these  realms, 
if  not  by  that  of  the  sovereignty  of  the  people?  .  .  .  The  King  holds  his 
title  by  an  Act  of  Parliament.  Who  called  that  Parliament?  King  \Villiaiu 
the  Third.  By  what  right  did  he  obtain  it?  By  a  Convention  representing  the 
sovereignty  of  the  people.  The  Convention  of  Representatives  in  fact  did  the 
thing.  It  is  whimsical  enough  to  deprive  the  noble  Duke  of  his  appointments  for 
an  offence  which,  if  he  had  not  committed  during  the  reigns  of  George  I.  and 
George  II.,  would  have  subjected  him  to  the  charge  of  being  a  Jacobite,  and  an 
adherent  of  the  exiled  family.  ...  Of  the  persons  of  his  Majesty's  Ministers 
I  will  not  say  a  word.  There  are  several  of  them  to  whom  I  may  fairly  say  this 
sentiment  is  not  new.  One  member  of  the  Cabinet  (the  Duke  of  Portland)  is 
still  a  member  of  this  club ;  another  (Mr.  Windham)  was  a  member ;  and  a 
third  (Earl  Spencer)  long  gloried  in  holding  the  same  tenets.  How  often  with 
the  two  Brst  have  we  drunk  the  sentiment  in  this  room  !  What  did  they  mean 
when  they  drank  the  Sovereignty  of  the  People  ?  What,  but  that  they  recog- 
nised by  this  approved  and  customary  method  a  truth  which  belongs  to  all 
people  in  reality,  but  is  the  avowed  basis  of  the  Government  of  England,  that 
the  peopla  of  every  country  are  its  legitimate  Sovereign,  and  that  all  anthority 
is  delegated  from  and  for  them  ?  I  should  be  ashamed,  on  account  of  my  old 
respect  for  those  persons,  if  they  did  not  honestly  avow  this  to  be  their  sense  of 
the  sentiment." 

While  adverting,  on  this  occasion,  to  the  dismissal  of  the  DUKE  OF  NORFOLK 
from  his  Lord-Lieutenancy  and  Colonelcy  of  Militia,  Fox  remarked,  "I  have 
nothing  the  Ministers  can  take  from  me.  I  am  still  indeed  a  Privy  Councillor, 
at  least  I  know  nothing  to  the  contrary;  and  if  this  sentiment  entitles  the 
Noble  Duke  to  this  animadversion,  I  shall  certainly  feel  that  I  am  equally 
entitled  to  this  mark  of  his  Majesty's  displeasure."  This  anticipation  was 
veritted  shortly  afterwards. 

On  the  1st  of  May  following,  at  the  Freemasons'  Tayern,  another  dinner  of 
the  Whig  Club  took  place.    Fox  was  in  the  chair,  and  gave,  as  the  first  toast — 
"THE  SOVEREIGNTY  OF  THE  PEOPLE  OF  GREAT  BRITAIN". 


124 


POETKY   OF 


The  Duke  of  Norfolk  proposed  "The  Health  of  the  Man  who  dares  be 
Honest  in  the  worst  of  Times — 

"CHARLES  JAMES  Fox". 

Fox  responded  in  a  most  impressive  speech.  He  said  :  "  On  any  other  occa- 
sion, he  should  have  contented  himself  with  returning  thanks,  but  in  the  very 
peculiar  embarrassments  in  which  the  country  was  now  plunged,  he  thought  it 
necessary  to  say  a  few  words  in  the  only  place  in  which  he  thought  it  might  be 
useful  for  him  to  deliver  his  sentiments.  The  circumstances  and  events  of 
public  affairs  of  late  had  induced  him  and  many  of  his  friends  to  abstain  from 
their  usual  assiduous  attendance  in  Parliament.  Their  exertions  for  the  preser- 
vation of  the  Constitution  had  been  of  no  avail ;  two  years  ago  they  had  seen 
the  repeal  of  the  Bill  of  Rights  carried  by  a  triumphant  majority ;  they  had 
seen  the  functions  of  the  Constitutional  Law  suspended,  on  alarm  created  by 
the  Ministers  themselves  ;  and  however  well-founded  the  alarm  might  now  be, 
he  scorned  the  idea  that  it  was  necessary  for  him  to  attend  in  his  place  in  the 
House  of  Commons,  for  the  purpose  only  of  vindicating  himself  from  the  vulgar 
calumny  that  he  was  not  an  enemy  to  a  foreign  invasion.  It  would  be  an  insult 
on  his  whole  life  if  such  a  declaration  could  be  expected  from  him.  He  believed 
there  was  not  a  voice  in  the  assembly  he  addressed  which  was  not  in  unison 
with  his  own— namely,  that  every  man  who  heard  him  was  both  ready  and 
willing  to  stand  forth  in  defence  of  his  country,  with  the  spirit  that  belongs  to 
Englishmen.  He  found  no  fault  with  those  who  thought  it  necessary  to  make 
these  professions  elsewhere.  Thus  much  only  would  he  say  in  this  place  for 
himself.  The  present  Government  of  the  country,  he  had  no  hesitation  in  saying,  va» 
a  Government  of  Tyranny.  They  had  adopted  the  principles  of  Robespierre,  and  their 
object  teas  to  establish  tyranny  in  England.  Look  at  the  situation  of  the  Sister 
Kingdom  ;  our  own  will  soon  be  the  same.  He  bad  no  remedy  to  recommend 
but  that  the  friends  of  freedom  should  be  united  and  firm,  and  wait  for  better 
times.  Tyranny  was  now  the  order  of  the  day  in  every  country  in  Europe. 
Notwithstanding  the  arbitrary  proceedings  of  our  own  Ministers,  he  was  per- 
suaded the  unanimous  feeling  of  the  country,  the  universal  determination  of 
every  man  in  it  was  to  be  ready  to  take  the  field  against  a  foreign  foe ;  and, 
indeed,  they  had  a  powerful  motive  to  do  so,  for  if  they  were  united,  they  had 
a  better  chance  to  get  rid  of  the  tyranny  of  their  own  Ministers  than  they  could 
possibly  have  by  the  success  of  a  foreign  invasion.  Even  in  his  present  retire- 
ment he  should  be  ready  to  come  forward,  in  every  constitutional  effort,  to  re- 
gain our  lost  liberties  ;  and  he  should  be  in  the  foremost  of  the  ranks  to  repel 
the  invasion  of  a  daring  enemy." 

This  speech  led  to  a  most  important  consequence— the  erasfhg  from  the 
Privy  Council  Book  the  name  of  one  of  the  most  illustrious  statesmen  which 
had  ever  adorned  it.  Fox's  name  was  struck  out  by  the  King  on  the  9th  of 
May. 

On  the  6th  of  June,  after  the  dinner  at  the  Whig  Club,  the  DUKE  OF  BEDFORD 
proposed  "THE  HEALTH  OF  CHARLES  Fox,"  and  remarked  in  severe  terms  on 
Ministers  having  caused  the  King  to  strike  his  name  out  of  the  list  of  the  Privy 
Council.  Fox  said  :  "It  would  be  most  unfit  for  him  to  say  a  word  respecting 
the  Noble  Duke's  allusion  to  a  circumstance  personal  to  himself.  Would  to  God 
the  time  of  the  Ministers  had  been  always  employed  in  such  frivolous  fooleries  as 
settling  who  should  be  Honourable  and  who  Right  Honourable,  and  deliberating 
on  the  titles  most  befitting  their  friends  and  supporters."  Fox,  with  some  of 
his  supporters,  seceded  from  Parliament  in  1797,  and  returned  to  the  House  of 
Commons  in  1802  to  defend  the  Peace  of  Amiens,  and  he  was  persuaded  to  con- 
tinue his  parliamentary  attendance  by  the  urgent  request  of  friends,  with  whose 
wishes  he  felt  himself  bound  to  comply. — ED.] 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  125 


No.  XIX. 

March  19,  1798. 

FOR  the  authenticity  of  the  enclosed  Ballad  we  refer 
our  readers  to  a  volume  of  MS.  Poems  discovered  upon 
the  removal  of  some  papers,  during  the  late  alterations 
which  have  taken  place  at  the  Tax-office,  in  consequence 
of  the  Eeports  of  the  Finance  Committee. 

It  has  been  communicated  to  our  printer  by  an  in- 
genious friend  of  his,  who  occasionally  acts  for  the 
Deputy  Collector  of  the  Parish  of  St.  Martin  in  the 
Fields ;  but  without  date,  or  any  other  mark,  by  which 
we  are  enabled  to  guess  at  the  particular  subject  of  the 
composition. 

CHEVY  CHASE.* 

GOD  prosper  long  our  noble  king, 

Our  lives  and  safeties  all : 
A  woeful  story  late  there  did 

In  Britain's  Isle  befall. 

DUKE  SMITHSON,  of  NORTHUMBERLAND, 

A  vow  to  God  did  make, 
The  choicest  gifts  in  fair  England, 

For  him  and  his  to  take. 


[*  This  clever  parody  has  reference  to  the  attempt  made  by 
the  DUKE  OF  NORTHUMBERLAND  to  evade  payment  of  PITT'S 
Income-tax.  To  mitigate  the  severity  of  the  pressure  on 
persons  with  large  families,  a  deduction  of  ten  per  cent,  was 
allowed  to  persons  who  had  above  a  certain  number  of 
children.  Among  others  the  Duke  was  not  ashamed  to  avail 
himself  of  this  clause. — ED.] 


126  POETKY   OF 

"  Stand  fast,  my  merry  men,"  he  cried, 

"  By  MOIEA'S  Earl  and  me, 
And  we  will  gain  place,  wealth  and  pow'r, 

As  arm'd  neutrality. 

"Excise  and  Customs,  Church  and  Law, 

I've  begg'd  from  Master  EOSE  ; 
The  Garter  too — but  still  the  Blues 

I'll  have,  or  I'll  oppose." 

"  Now  God  be  with  him,"  quoth  the  KING, 

"  Sith  'twill  no  better  be ; 
I  trust  we  have  within  our  realm 

Five  hundred  good  as  he." 

The  DUKE  then  join'd  with  Charley  Fox, 

A  leader  ware  and  tried, 
And  EBSKINE,  SHERIDAN,  and  GREY 

Fought  stoutly  by  his  side. 

Throughout  the  English  Parliament, 

They  dealt  full  many  a  wound ; 
But  in  his  king's  and  country's  cause, 

PITT  firmly  stood  his  ground. 

And  soon  a  law  like  arrow  keen, 

Or  spear,  or  curtal-axe, 
Struck  poor  DUKE  SMITHSON  to  the  heart, 

In  shape  of  Potcdei--tax* 

Sore  leaning  on  his  crutch,  he  cried, 

"  Crop,  crop,  my  merry  men  all ; 
No  guinea  for  your  head  I'll  pay, 

Though  Church  and  State  should  fall  ". 

[*  See  Note  at  p.  84  in  "  A  Bit  of  an  Ode  to  Mr.  Fox,"  line 
18.— ED.] 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  127 

Again  the  taxing-man  appeared — 

No  deadlier  foe  could  be ; 
A  schedule  of  a  cloth-yard  long, 

Within  his  hand  bore  he. 

"  Yield  thee,  DUKE  SMITHSON,  and  behold 

The  assessment  thou  must  pay ; 
Dogs,  horses,  houses,  coaches,  clocks, 

And  servants  in  array." 

"  Nay,"  quoth  the  DUKE,  "  in  thy  black  scroll 

Deductions  I  espye — 
For  those  who,  poor,  and  mean,  and  low, 

With  children  burthen 'd  lie. 

"And  though  full  sixty  thousand  pounds 

My  vassals  pay  to  me, 
From  Cornwall  to  Northumberland, 

Through  many  a  fair  countee ; 

"  Yet  England's  church,  its  king,  its  laws, 

Its  cause,  I  value  not, 
Compar'd  with  this,  my  constant  text, 

A  penny  sav'd,  is  got. 

"  No  drop  of  princely  PERCY'S  blood 
Through  these  cold  veins  doth  run  ; 

With  Hotspurs  castles,  blazon,  name, 
I  still  am  ^00?'  SMITHSON. 

"  Let  England's  youth  unite  in  amis,    • 

And  every  liberal  hand, 
With  honest  zeal,  subscribe  their  mite, 

To  save  their  native  land  : 


128  POETRY    OF 

" I  at  St.  Martins  Vestry  Board, 

To  swear  shall  be  content, 
That  I  have  children  eight,  and  claim 

Deductions  ten  per  cent." 

God  bless  us  all  from  factious  foes, 

And  French  fraternal  kiss ; 
And  grant  the  king  may  never  make 

Another  Duke  like  this.* 

*  [*  SIB  HUGH  SMITHSON  married  Lady  Eliz.  Seymour,  great- 
granddaughter  of  Joceline,  eleventh  Earl  of  Northumberland, 
who  was  the  last  of  the  male  Percies.  He  was  created  DUKE 
OF  NORTHUMBERLAND  in  1766.  The  hero  of  this  Ballad  was  his 
son,  who  died  in  1817. — ED.] 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  12'J 


No.  XX. 

ODE  TO  JACOBINISM. 

March  26,  1798. 
I. 

DAUGHTEE  of  Hell,  insatiate  power, 

Destroyer  of  the  human  race, 
Whose  iron  scourge  and  madd'ning  hour 

Exalt  the  bad,  the  good  debase ; 
Thy  mystic  force,  despotic  sway, 
Courage  and  innocence  dismay, 
And  patriot  monarchs  vainly  groan 
With  pangs  unfelt  before,  unpitied  and  alone  ! 

n. 

When  first  to  scourge  the  sons  of  earth, 

Thy  sire  his  darling  child  design'd, 
Gallia  receiv'd  the  monstrous  birth — 

VOLTAIRE  inform 'd  thy  infant  mind ; 
Well-chosen  nurse  !  his  sophist  lore 
He  bade  thee  many  a  year  explore  ! 
He  mark'd  thy  progress,  firm  though  slow, 
And  statesmen,  princes,  leagued  with  their  invet'rate  foe. 

in. 
Scared  at  thy  frown  terrific,  fly 

The  morals  (antiquated  brood) ; 
Domestic  Virtue,  social  Joy, 

And  Faith  that  has  for  ages  stood  : 
Swift  they  disperse,  and  with  them  go 
The  friend  sincere,  the  gen'rous  foe. — 

9 


130  POETKY   OF 

Traitors  to  God  and  man  avow'd, 
By  thee  now  rais'd  aloft,  now  crush'd  beneath  the  crowd. 

IV. 

Eevenge,  in  blood-stain'd  robe  arrayed, 
Immersed  in  gloomy  joy  profound ; 

Ingratitude,  by  guilt  dismay'd, 

With  anxious  eye  wild  glancing  round, 

Still  on  thy  frantic  steps  attend  : 

With  Death,  thy  victim's  only  friend, 

Injustice,  to  the  truth  severe, 
And  Anguish,  dropping  still  the  life-consuming  tear. 

v. 

Oh  swiftly  on  my  country's  head, 

Destroyer,  lay  thy  ruthless  hand ; 
Nor  yet  in  Gallic  terrors  clad, 

Nor  circled  by  the  Marseilles  band, 
(As  by  th'  initiate  thou  art  seen), 
With  thund'ring  cannon,  guillotine, 
With  screaming  Horror's  funeral  cry, 
Fire,  Kapine,  sword,  and  chains,  and  ghastly  Poverty. 

VI. 

Thy  sophist  veil,  dread  goddess,  wear, 

Falsehood  insidiously  impart ; 
Thy  philosophic  train,  be  there, 

To  taint  the  mind,  corrupt  the  heart ; 
The  gen'rous  virtues  of  our  isle, 
Teach  us  to  hate  and  to  revile ; 
Our  glorious  Charter's  faults  to  scan, 
Time-sanction'd  truths  despise,  and  preach  THY  EIGHTS 
OF  MAN. 

AN  ENGLISH  JACOBIN. 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  131 

[The  original  poeru,  of  which  the  above  is  an  imitation,  is 
subjoined  : — 

HYMN   TO   ADVERSITY. 

BY   THOMAS   GRAY. 

Daughter  of  Jove,  relentless  power, 

Thou  tamer  of  the  human  breast, 
Whose  iron  scourge,  and  torturing  hour, 

The  bad  affright,  afflict  the  bestl 
Bound  in  thy  adamantine  chain, 
The  proud  are  taught  to  taste  of  pain, 
And  purple  tyrants  vainly  groan, 
With  pangs  unfelt  before,  unpitied  and  alone. 

When  first  thy  sire  to  send  on  earth 

Virtue,  his  darling  child,  designed, 
To  thee  he  gave  the  heavenly  birth, 

And  bade  thee  form  her  infant  mind, 
Stern,  rugged  nurse  !   thy  rigid  lore 
With  patience  many  a  year  she  bore  : 
What  sorrow  was,  thou  bad'st  her  know, 
And  from  her  own  she  learnt  to  melt  at  others'  woe. 

Scared  at  thy  frown  terrific,  fly 

Self-pleasing  Folly's  idle  brood, 
Wild  Laughter,  Noise,  and  thoughtless  Joy, 

And  leave  vis  leisure  to  be  good. 
Light  they  disperse,  and  with  them  go 
The  summer  friend,  the  flattering  foe ; 
By  vain  prosperity  received, 
To  her  they  vow  their  truth,  and  are  again  believed. 

Wisdom,  in  sable  garb  arrayed, 

Immersed  in  rapturous  thought  profound, 

And  Melancholy,  silent  maid, 

With  leaden  eye  that  loves  the  ground, 

Still  on  thy  solemn  steps  attend : 

Warm  Charity,  the  general  friend, 

With  Justice,  to  herself  severe, 
And  Pity,  dropping  soft  the  sadly-pleasing  tear. 

O,  gently  on  thy  suppliant's  head, 

Dread  goddess,  lay  thy  chastening  hand ! 

Not  in  thy  Gorgon  terrors  clad, 
Nor  circled  with  the  vengeful  band 


132 


POETRY    OF 


(As  by  the  impious  thou  art  seen), 
With  thundering  voice,  and  threatening  mien, 
With  screaming  Horror's  funeral  cry, 
Despair,  and  fell  Disease,  and  ghastly  Poverty. 

Thy  form  benign,  O  goddess !  wear, 

Thy  milder  influence  impart, 
Thy  philosophic  train  be  there, 

To  soften  not  to  wound  my  heart. 
The  generous  spark  extinct  revive ; 
Teach  me  to  love  and  to  forgive ; 
Exact  my  own  defects  to  scan, 
What  others  are,  to  feel,  and  know  myself  a  man. — ED.] 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  133 


No.  XXL 

April  2,  1798. 

WE  promised  in  our  Sixteenth  Number,  that  though 
we  should  not  proceed  regularly  with  the  publication 
of  the  Didactic  Poem,  the  PROGRESS  OF  MAN, — a  work 
which,  indeed,  both  from  its  bulk,  and  from  the  erudite 
nature  of  the  subject,  would  hardly  suit  with  the  pur- 
poses of  a  Weekly  Paper,  —  we  should,  nevertheless, 
give  from  time  to  time  such  extracts  from  it  as  we 
thought  were  likely  to  be  useful  to  our  readers,  and 
as  were  in  any  degree  connected  with  the  topics  or 
events  of  the  times. 

The  following  extract  is  from  the  23rd  Canto  of  this 
admirable  and  instructive  Poem ; — in  which  the  author 
(whom,  by  a  series  of  accidents,  which  we  have  neither 
the  space,  nor  indeed  the  liberty,  to  enumerate  at 
present,  we  have  discovered  to  be  MR.  HIGGINS,  of 
St.  Mary  Axe)  describes  the  vicious  refinement  of  what 
is  called  civilized  society,  in  respect  to  marriage;  con- 
tends with  infinite  spirit  and  philosophy  against  the 
factitious  sacredness  and  indissolubility  of  that  institu- 
tion ;  and  paints  in  glowing  colours  the  happiness  and 
utility  (in  a  moral  as  well  as  political  view)  of  an  ar- 
rangement of  an  opposite  sort,  such  as  prevails  in 
countries  which  are  yet  under  the  influence  of  pure 
and  unsophisticated  nature. 

In  illustration  of  his  principles  upon  this  subject,  the 
author  alludes  to  a  popular  production  of  the  German 
Drama,  the  title  of  which  is  the  "  EEFORMED  HOUSE- 


134  POETRY    OF 

KEEPER"  [The  Stranger],  which  he  expresses  a  hope  of 
seeing  transfused  into  the  language  of  this  country. 

THE    PEOGEESS    OF    MAN. 
CANTO  TWENTY-THIRD. 

CONTENTS. 

ON  MARRIAGE. — Marriage  being  indissoluble  the  cause  of  its 
being  so  often  unhappy. — Nature's  laws  not  consulted  in 
this  point. — Civilized  nations  mistaken. — OTAHEITE  :  Hap- 
piness of  the  natives  thereof — visited  by  Captain  Cook,  in 
his  Majesty's  Ship  Endeavour — Character  of  Captain  Cook. — 
Address  to  Circumnavigation. — Description  of  His  Majesty's 
Ship  Endeavour  --Mast,  rigging,  sea-sickness,  prow,  poop, 
mess-room,  surgeon's  mate — History  of  one. — Episode  con- 
cerning naval  chirurgery. — Catching  a  Thunny  Fish. — Arrival 
at  Otaheite — cast  anchor — land — Natives  astonished. — Love 
— Liberty — Moral — Natural —  Religious  —  Contrasted  with 
European  manners.  —  Strictness  —  License — Doctor's  Com- 
mons.— Dissolubility  of  MARRIAGE  recommended — Illustrated 
by  a  game  at  Cards — Whist — Cribbage — Partners  changed — 
Why  not  the  same  in  Marriage  ? — Illustrated  by  a  River. — 
Love  free. — Priests,  Kings. —  German  Drama. — KOTZEBUE'S 
"  Housekeeper  Reformed".  — Moral  employments  of  House- 
keeping described — Hottentots  sit  and  stare  at  each  other 
— Query,  WHY? — Address  to  the  Hottentots —History  of  the 
Cape  of  Good  Hope. — Resume  of  the  Arguments  against 
Marriage. — Conclusion. 

PEOGEESS  OF  MAN. 

EXTRACT. 

HAIL  !  beauteous  lands"  that  crown  the  Southern  Seas  ; 

Dear  happy  seats  of  Liberty  and  Ease  ! 

Hail !  whose  green  coasts  the  peaceful  ocean  laves, 

*  The  ceremony  of  invocation  (in  didactic  poems  especially) 
is  in  some  measure  analogous  to  the  custom  of  drinking  toasts ; 
the  corporeal  representatives  of  which  are  always  supposed  to 
be  absent,  and  unconscious  of  the  irrigation  bestowed  upon 
their  names.  Hence  it  is,  that  our  Author  addresses  himself  to 
the  natives  of  an  island  who  are  not  likely  to  hear,  and  who, 
if  they  did,  would  not  understand  him. 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  135 

Incessant  washing  with  its  watery  waves  ! 
Delicious  islands  !  to  whose  envied  shore 
Thee,  gallant  COOK!  the  ship  Endeavour*  bore. 

There  laughs  the  sky,  there  zephyr's  frolic  train, 
And  light-wing'd  loves,  and  blameless  pleasures  reign  : 
There,  when  two  souls  congenial  ties  unite, 
No  hireling  Bonzes  chant  the  mystic  rite ; 
Free  every  thought,  each  action  unconfin'd, 
And  light  those  fetters  which  no  rivets  bind. 

There  in  each  grove,  each  sloping  bank  along, 
And  flow'rs  and  shrubs  and  odorous  herbs  among, 
Each  shepherd  clasp'd,  with  undisguis'd  delight, 
His  yielding  fair  one, — in  the  Captain's  sight ; 
Each  yielding  fair,  as  chance  or  fancy  led, 
Preferr'd  new  lovers  to  her  sylvan  bed.f 

Learn  hence,  each  nymph,  whose  free  aspiring  mind 
Europe's  cold  laws,J  and  colder  customs§  bind — 
0 !  learn,  what  Nature's  genial  laws  decree — 
What  Otaheite  ||  is,  let  Britain  be  ! 


*  His  Majesty's  ship  Endeavour. 

f  In  justice  to  our  Author  we  must  observe,  that  there  is  a 
delicacy  in  this  picture,  which  the  words,  in  their  common 
acceptation,  do  not  convey.  The  amours  of  an  English  shep- 
herd would  probably  be  preparatory  to  marriage  (which  is  con- 
trary to  our  Author's  principles),  or  they  might  disgust  us  by 
the  vulgarity  of  their  object.  But  in  Otaheite,  where  the 
place  of  a  shepherd  is  a  perfect  sinecure  (there  being  no  sheep 
on  the  island),  the  mind  of  the  reader  is  not  offended  by  any 
disagreeable  allusion. 

t  Laws  made  by  parliaments  or  kings. 

§  Customs  voted  or  imposed  by  ditto,  not  the  customs  here 
alluded  to. 

||  M.  Bailly  and  other  astronomers  have  observed,  that  in 


136  POETRY    OF 

Of  WHIST  or  CRIBBAGE  mark  th'  amusing  game — 
The  partners  changing,  but  the  SPORT  the  same. 
Else  would  the  gamester's  anxious  ardour  cool, 
Dull  every  deal,  and  stagnant  every  pool. 
— Yet  must  one  *  Man,  with  one  unceasing  Wife, 
Play  the  LONG  RUBBER  of  connubial  life. 

Yes  !  human  laws,  and  laws  esteem'd  divine, 
The  generous  passion  straiten  and  confine ; 
And,  as  a  stream,  when  art  constrains  its  course, 
Pours  its  fierce  torrent  with  augmented  force, 
So,  Passionf  narrowed  to  one  channel  small, 
Unlike  the  former,  does  not  flow  at  all. 
— For  Love  then  only  flaps  his  purple  wings, 
When  uncontroll'd  by  priestcraft  or  by  kings. 

Such  the  strict  rules,  that,  in  these  barbarous  climes, 
Choke  youth's  fair  flow'rs,  and  feelings  turn  to  crimes ; 
And  people  every  walk  of  polish'd  lifej 
With  that  two-headed  monster,  MAN  and  WIFE. 

Yet  bright  examples  sometimes  we  observe, 
Which  from  the  general  practice  seem  to  swerve ; 


consequence  of  the  varying  obliquity  of  the  Ecliptic,  the 
climates  of  the  circumpolar  and  tropical  climates  may,  in  pro- 
cess of  time,  be  materially  changed.  Perhaps  it  is  not  very 
likely  that  even  by  these  means  Britain  may  ever  become  a 
small  island  in  the  South  Seas.  But  this  is  not  the  meaning 
of  the  verse— the  similarity  here  proposed  relates  to  manners, 
not  to  local  situation. 

*  The  word  one  here,  means  all  the  inhabitants  of  Europe 
(excepting  the  French,  who  have  remedied  this  inconvenience), 
not  any  particular  individual.  The  Author  begs  leave  to  dis- 
claim every  allusion  that  can  be  construed  as  personal. 

f  As  a  stream —simile  of  dissimilitude,  a  mode  of  illustration 
familiar  to  the  ancients. 

\  Walks  of  polished  life,  see  "  Kensington  Gardens,"  a  poem. 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  137 

Such  as  presented  to  Germania's*  view, 
A  KOTZEBUE'S  bold  emphatic  pencil  drew  : 
Such  as,  translated  in  some  future  age, 
Shall  add  new  glories  to  the  British  stage  ; 
—While  the  moved  audience  sit  in  dumb  despair, 
"  Like  Hottentots,f  and  at  each  other  stare  ". 

With  look  sedate,  and  staid  beyond  her  years, 
In  matron  weeds  a  Housekeeper  appears. 
The  jingling  keys  her  comely  girdle  deck — 
Her  'kerchief  colour'd,  and  her  apron  check. 
Can  that  be  Adelaide,  that  "  soul  of  whim," 
Reformed  in  practice,  and  in  manner  prim  ? 
— On  household  cares  intent, J  with  many  a  sigh 
She  turns  the  pancake,  and  she  moulds  the  pie ; 
Melts  into  sauces  rich  the  savoury  ham  ; 
From  the  crush'd  berry  Strains  the  lucid  jam ; 
Bids  brandied  cherries, §  by  infusion  slow, 
Imbibe  new  flavour,  and  their  own  forego, 
Sole  cordial  of  her  heart,  sole  solace  of  her  woe ! 
While,  still  responsive  to  each  mournful  moan, 
The  saucepan  simmers  in  a  softer  tone. 


*Germania—  Germany;  a  country  in  Europe,  peopled  by 
the  German! :  alluded  to  in  Caesar's  Commentaries,  page  1,  vol. 
ii.  edit.  prin.  See  also  several  Didactic  Poems. 

f  A  beautiful  figure  of  German  literature.  The  Hottentots 
remarkable  for  staring  at  each  other — God  knows  why. 

J  This  delightful  and  instructive  picture  of  domestic  life  is 
recommended  to  all  keepers  of  boarding-schools,  and  other 
seminaries  of  the  same  nature. 

§  It  is  a  singular  quality  of  brandied  cherries  that  they 
exchange  their  flavour  for  that  of  the  liquor  in  which  they  are 
immersed. — See  Knight's  Progress  of  Civil  Society. 


138  POETRY   OF 

[The  following  extracts  will  give  some  idea  of  PAYNE  KMGHT'S  poem. 

Hail !  happy  States,  that  fresh  in  vigour  rise 
From  Europe's  wrecks  beneath  Atlantic  skies  ! 
Long  may  ye  feel  the  blessings  ye  bestow  ; 
Nor  e'er  your  parents'  sickly  symptoms  know ! 
But  when  that  parent,  crush'd  beneath  the  weight 
Of  debts  and  taxes,  yields  herself  to  fate ; 
May  you  her  hapless  fugitives  receive, 
Comfort  their  sorrows,  and  their  wants  relieve  ! 
For  come  it  will — th'  inevitable  day, 
When  Britain  must  corruption's  forfeit  pay, 
Beneath  a  despot's,  or  a  rabble's  sway. 

After  a  glowing  description  of  the  amours  of  a  shepherd  and  shepherdess, 
he  thus  speaks  of  Marriage : — 

Bless'd  days  of  youth,  of  liberty,  and  love  ! 

How  short,  alas  !  your  transient  pleasures  prove  ! 

Just  as  we  think  the  sweet  delights  our  own, 

We  strive  to  fix  them,  and  we  find  them  flown : — 

For  fix'd  by  laws,  and  limited  by  rules, 

Affection  stagnates  and  love's  fervour  cools  ; 

Shrinks  like  the  gather'd  flower,  which,  when  possess'd, 

Droops  in  the  hand,  or  withers  on  the  breast : 

Feels  all  its  native  bloom  and  fragrance  fly, 

And  death's  pale  shadows  close  its  purple  dye. 

While  mutual  wishes  form  love's  only  vows, 
By  mutual  interests  nursed,  the  union  grows ; 
Respectful  fear  its  rising  power  maintains, 
And  both  preserve,  when  each  may  break,  its  chains. 

But  when  in  bands  indissoluble  join'd, 
Securely  torpid  sleeps  the  sated  mind ; 
No  anxious  hopes  or  fears  arise,  to  move 
The  flagging  wings,  or  stir  the  fires  of  love  : 
Benumb'd,  the  soul's  best  energies  repose, 
And  life  in  dull  unvaried  torpor  flows  ; 
Or  only  shakes  off  lethargy  to  teaze 
Whom  once  its  only  pleasure  was  to  please. — ED.] 

In  illustration  of  these  peculiar  doctrines  of  Love  and  Marriage,  the  authors 
of  the  present  Parody  introduced  into  the  first  twenty  lines  of  the  preceding 
"  Extract,"  the  very  free  statements  on  these  subjects  which  appear  in  Chapters 
8,  12,  14,  16,  17,  of  the  narrative  of  Cook's  First  Voyage  to  the  Pacific  in  the 
"  Endeavour,"  in  1768,  derived,  by  the  editor,  Dr.  John  Hawkesworth,  from  the 
Diary  of  Mr.  (afterwards  Sir  Joseph)  Banks,  who  accompanied  Captain  Cook. — 
ED.] 

[LORD  ERSKINE,  after  dinner,  inveighed  bitterly  against  Marriage ;  and 
smarting,  I  suppose,  under  the  recollection  of  his  own  unsuccessful  choice,  con- 
cluded by  saying  that  a  wife  was  a  tin  canister  tied  to  a  man's  tail,  which  very 
much  excited  the  indignation  of  Lady  Ann  Culling  Smith,  who  was  of  the 
party.  "Monk"  Lewis  took  a  sheet  of  paper,  and  wrote  the  following  neat 
epigram  on  the  subject,  which  he  presented  to  Her  Royal  Highness  [the  Duchess 

"  Lord  Erskine  at  marriage  presuming  to  rail, 
Says,  a  wile's  a  tin  canister  tied  to  one's  tail; 
And  the  fair  Lady  Ann,  while  the  subject  he  carries  on, 
Feels  hurt  at  his  Lordship's  degrading  comparison. 
But  wherefore  degrading?  if  taken  aright, 
A  tin  canister's  useful,  and  polished,  and  bright, 
And  if  dirt  its  original  purity  hide, 
'Tis  the  fault  of  the  puppy  to  whom  it  is  tied." 

—Journal  oj'T.  Raii-es,  ii.  56.— ED.] 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  139 

[RICHARD  PAY.NE  KNIGHT,  eminent  as  he  was  as  a  classical  scholar  anil 
archaeologist,  was  not  successful  as  a  poet  or  moralist,  and  this  is  shown  in  an 
amusing  manner  in  a  letter  from  Horace  Walpole  to  the  Rev.  W.  Mason,  dated 
22nd  March,  1796,  in  which  he  declares  how  much  he  is  offended  and  disgusted 
by  Knight's  "  new  insolent  and  self-conceited  poem,"  alluding  to  his  Progregt  of 
Civil  Society, — the  former  one  being  "  T/ie  Lamlscape,  a  didactic  poem  in  three 
books,"  4to,  pub.  1794,  of  which  mention  has  already  been  made. 

In  1816  he  was  examined  before  a  Select  Committee  of  the  House  of  Commons 
on  the  proposed  purchase  by  the  Government  of  the  l-'.luin  Marbles ;  but  his 
estimate  of  their  value  as  works  of  the  highest  art  was  much  below  that  of  other 
artistic  witnesses,  such  as  Flaxman,  Westmacott,  Chantrey,  B.  West,  and  others. 
For  these  statements  he  was  severely  criticised  in  vol.  14  of  the  Quarterly  Jiirieic, 
and  in  a  squib,  reprinted  in  the  Aw  Whig  Guide  in  1819.  He  valued  the  collec- 
tion at  £25,000  ;  Gavin  Hamilton's  estimate  was  £00,800,  and  Lord  Aberdeen's 
£35,000 ;  for  which  latter  sum  they  were  obtained  by  the  Government.  He 
bequeathed  his  collection  of  ancient  Bronzes,  Greek  Coins,  &c. — valued  at 
£50,000— to  the  British  Museum. 

He  represented  Ludlow  till  1806.  He  was  a  supporter  of  Fox,  upon  whom 
he  wrote  a  Monody.  He  was  never  married,  and  he  was  succeeded  in  his  fine 

Eroperty,  including  Downton  Castle,  near  Ludlow,  &c.,  on  his  death  in  1824, 
y  his  brother,  Thomas  Andrew  Knight,  one  of  the  most  scientific  of  horticul- 
turists, and  he  in  turn  was  succeeded  by  his  grandson,  Andrew  Johnes  Rouse 
Boughton,  second  son  of  the  late  Sir  W.  E.  Rouse  Boughton,  Bart.,  who  added 
by  royal  license  in  1856  the  name  of  Knight  to  his  patronymic. — ED.] 

[The  drama  (here  nicknamed  The  Reformed  Hnmek-eeper),  but  entitled  by  the 
author  "Misanthropy  and  Jiei>entaiice,"  was  produced  at  Drury  Lane  Theatre, 
Sheridan  being  then  lessee,  as  "  The  Stranger,"  on  the  24th  March,  1798.  The 
following  was  the  cast : -The  Stranger,  J.  P.  Kemble ;  Baron  Steinj'ort,  John 
Palmer ;  Francis,  R.  Palmer ;  refer,  Suett ;  Tobias,  J.  Aikiu  ;  Solomon,  Wewit- 
zer ;  Count  Wintersen,  Barrymore  ;  Mr».  nailer,  Mrs.  Siddons  ;  Countess  If'inter- 
sen,  Mrs.  Goodall ;  Charlotte,  Miss  Stuart.  It  was  considered  by  competent 
authorities  as  one  of  Ke  nble's  finest  efforts,  and  was  performed  on  twenty -six 
successive  nights.  Some  of  our  most  eminent  actors  and  actresses  have  essayed 
the  principal  parts.  Miss  O'Neill  made  her  last  appearance  on  the  stage  in  the 
character  of  Mrs.  Haller,  13th  of  July,  1818. 

The  acting  version  purported  to  be  altered  from  the  Gennan  by  Benj. 
Thompson  (afterwards  Count  Rumford),  but  it  is  likely  that  all  or  most  of 
the  alterations  came  from  the  skilful  hands  of  Sheridan,  assisted  by  Kemble. 
The  pathetic  song  introduced,  "  /  hare  a  gilent  narrow  here,"  was  written 
by  the  former.  Two  other  versions  of  the  drama  appeared  in  the  year 
1798— one  by  A.  Schinck,  and  the  other  by  G.  Papendick— but  neither  has 
been  acted. 

Kotzebue  tells  us  in  his  Autobiographi/  that  this  play  of  his  was  acted  at  the 
Imperial  Palace  of  The  Hermitage,  St.  Petersburg,  under  his  superintendence 
while  manager  of  the  Imperial  Company  of  German  Comedians,  and  excited 
visible  emotion  in  the  Emperor  Paul.  He  himself  saw  it  acted  at  Tobolsk 
during  his  exile  in  Siberia.  The  vast  and  splendid  palace  of  The  Hermitage 
is  now  given  up  to  the  Arts.  It  contains  the  enormous  collection  of  Pictures 
accumulated  by  the  Russian  sovereigns  (including  the  Houghton  Gallery  formed 
by  Sir  Robert  Walpole),  together  with  a  Gallery  of  Sculpture,  one  of  the  finest 
assortments  of  Antique  Gems  in  the  world,  a  museum  of  Grecian  and  Etruscan 
Antiquities,  and  a  library  of  rare  Books  and  Manuscripts. 

An  awful  event  took  place  during  the  performance  of  this  play  a  short  time 
after  its  production.  John  Palmer,  an  eminent  comedian,  while  acting  the 
principal  character,  at  Liverpool,  on  the  2nd  of  August,  1798,  expired  on  the 
stage.  He  had  recently  suffered  severe  domestic  bereavements,  which  are  sup- 
posed to  have  given  a  painful  application  to  some  passages  in  the  third  act  in 
which  he  had  to  utter  the  words :  "  There  is  another  ami  a  better  world  ".  In 
the  first  scene  of  the  fourth  act,  his  agitation  increased ;  he  fell  into  the  arms  of 
the  performer  of  the  part  of  Baron  Steinfort,  and  died  without  a  groan.  A  nar- 
rative of  this  shocking  event,  published  immediately  afterwards,  by  the  same 
performer,  disposes  of  the  generally-received  but  more  emotional  tradition  that 


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Palmer's  earthly  career  was  terminated  while  pronouncing  the  above  words. 
He  was  in  his  fifty-seventh  year. 

This  is  not  the  only  instance  of  so  impressive  an  end,  for  a  similar  death- 
stroke  overtook  Joseph  Peterson,  an  excellent  actor,  in  October,  1758,  while  re- 
presenting The,  Duke  in  Measure  for  Measure.  In  act  3,  sc.  1,  in  reciting  the 
words — 

" — Reason  thus  with  life  : 
If  I  do  lose  thee,  I  do  lose  a  thing 
That  none  but  fools  would  keep  :  a  breath  thou  art—" 

he  dropped  into  the  arms  of  Moody,  who  personated  Claudia,  and  never  spoke 
more !— ED.] 

["  One  other  noted  character  we  visited— the  one  who,  according  to  William 
Taylor  of  Norwich,  was  the  greatest  of  all.  This  was  AUGUST  VON  KOTZEBUK, 
the  very  popular  dramatist,  whose  singular  fate  it  was  to  live  at  variance  with 
the  great  poets  of  his  country,  while  he  was  the  idol  of  the  mob.  He  was  at  one 
time  (about  this  time  (1801)  and  a  little  later)  a  favourite  in  all  Europe.  One  of 
his  plays,  The  Stranger,  I  have  seen  acted  in  German,  English,  Spanish,  French, 
and,  I  believe,  also  Italian.  He  was  the  pensioner  of  Prussia,  Austria,  and 
Russia.  The  odium  produced  by  this  circumstance,  and  the  imputation  of  being 
a  spy,  are  assigned  as  the  cause  of  his  assassination  by  [C.  L.  Sand]  a  student 
of  Jena,  a  few  years  after  our  visit  [March  3,  1819].  He  was  living,  like  Goethe, 
in  a  large  house  and  in  style.  I  drank  tea  with  him,  and  found  him  a  lively 
little  man,  with  small  black  eyes.  He  had  the  manners  of  a  petit-mattre." — 
Crabb  Robinson's  Diary  (1801),  i.  115.— ED.] 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  141 


No.  XXII. 

April  9,  1798. 

TO    THE    EDITOB    OF    THE    ANTI-JACOBIN. 

SIB, — I  saw,  with  strong  approbation,  your  specimen 
of  ancient  Sapphic  measure  in  English,  which  I  think 
far  surpasses  all  that  Abraham  Fraunce,  Eichard  Stany- 
hurst,  or  Sir  Philip  Sidney  himself,  have  produced  in 
that  style — I  mean,  of  course,  your  sublime  and  beautiful 
Knife-Grinder,  of  which  it  is  not  too  high  an  encomium 
to  say,  that  it  even  rivals  the  efforts  of  the  fine-eared 
democratic  poet,  Mr.  Southey.  But  you  seem  not  to 
be  aware,  that  we  have  a  genuine  Sapphic  measure  be- 
longing to  our  own  language,  of  which  I  now  send  you 
a  short  specimen. 

THE  JACOBIN. 

I  AM  a  hearty  Jacobin, 

Who  own  no  God,  and  dread  no  sin, 

Ready  to  dash  through  thick  and  thin 

For  freedom  : 

And  when  the  teachers  of  Chalk-Farm 
Gave  Ministers  so  much  alarm, 
And  preach'd  that  kings  did  only  harm, 

I  fee'd  'em. 

By  BEDFOBD'S  cut  I've  trimm'd  my  locks, 
And  coal-black  is  my  knowledge-box, 
Callous  to  all,  except  hard  knocks 

Of  thumpers ; 


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My  eye  a  noble  fierceness  boasts, 
My  voice  as  hollow  as  a  ghost's, 
My  throat  oft  washed  by  factious  toasts 

In  bumpers. 

"Whatever  is  in  France,  is  right ; 
Terror  and  blood  are  my  delight ; 
Parties  with  us  do  not  excite 

Enough  rage. 

Our  boasted  laws  I  hate  and  curse, 
Bad  from  the  first,  by  age  grown  worse, 
I  pant  and  sigh  for  univers-* 

al  suffrage. 

WAKEFIELD  1 1  love — adore  HOBNE  TOOKE, 
With  pride  on  JONES  2  and  THELWALLS  look, 
And  hope  that  they,  by  hook  or  crook, 

Will  prosper. 

But  they  deserve  the  worst  of  ills, 
And  all  th'  abuse  of  all  our  quills, 
Who  form'd  of  strong  and  (jagging  Bills 4 

A  cross  pair. 

Extinct  since  then  each  speaker's  fire, 
And  silent  ev'ry  daring  lyre,f 
Dum-founded  they  whom  I  would  hire 

To  lecture. 


*  This  division  of  the  word  is  in  the  true  spirit  of  the  English 
as  well  as  the  ancient  Sapphic.  See  the  "  Counter- Scuffle," 
"  Counter-Eat,"  and  other  poems  in  this  style. 

f  There  is  a  doubt,  whether  this  word  should  not  have  been 
written  liar. 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  14<3 

Tied  up,  alas  !  is  ev'ry  tongue 
On  which  conviction  nightly  hung,* 
And  THELWALL  looks,  though  yet  but  young, 

A  spectre.5 

B.  0.  B. 

*  These  words,  of  conviction  and  hanging,  have  so  ominous  a 
sound,  it  is  rather  odd  they  were  chosen. 

[(1)  The  Rev.  Gilbert  Wakefleld  wrote  several  pamphlets  against  government, 
of  which  no  notice  was  taken,  until  his  Letter  to  the  Bishop  of  Llandaff  appeared, 
when  the  Attorney-General  instituted  a  prosecution  against  him.  He  was  found 
guilty  and  imprisoned ;  during  which  imprisonment  a  subscription  of  £3000  among 
his  friends  supported  his  wife  and  family  very  comfortably. — ED.] 

[(2)  John  Gale  Jones  was  an  active  political  agitator  for  many  years.  In  1810, 
he  was  the  conductor  of  the  debating  club,  denominated  the  "  British  Forum," 
which  at  one  of  its  meetings  discussed  the  propriety  of  the  exclusion  of  strangers 
from  the  House  of  Commons  during  the  debates  on  the  Walcheren  Expedition. 
For  his  observations  the  House,  disregarding  his  apology,  committed  him  to 
Newgate.— ED.] 

[(3)  "  John  Thelwall  left  his  shop  (that  of  a  silk  mercer)  to  be  one  of  the  Re- 
formers of  the  age.  After  his  acquittal  he  went  about  the  country  lecturing. 
Sometimes  he  was  attended  by  numerous  admirers,  but  more  frequently  hooted 
and  pelted  by  the  mob.  In  order  to  escape  prosecution  for  sedition,  he  took  as 
his  subject  Greek  and  Roman  history,  and  had  ingenuity  enough  to  give  such  a 
colouring  to  events  and  characters,  as  to  render  the  application  to  living  persons 
and  present  events  an  exciting  mental  exercise.  I  heard  one  or  two  of  these 
lectures,  and  thought  very  differently  of  him  then  from  what  I  thought  after- 
wards. When,  however,  he  found  his  popularity  on  the  wane,  and  more  strin- 
gent laws  had  been  passed,  to  which  he  individually  gave  occasion,  he  came  to 
the  prudent  resolution  of  abandoning  his  vagrant  habits,  and  leading  a  farmer's 
life  in  a  beautiful  place  near  Brecon.  .  .  .  He  was  an  amiable  man  in  private 
life,  an  affectionate  husband,  and  a  fond  father.  He  altogether  mistook  his 
talents— he  told  me  without  reserve  that  he  believed  he  should  establish  his 
name  among  the  epic  poets  of  England ;  and  it  is  a  curious  thing  considering 
his  own  views  that  he  thought  the  establishment  of  Christianity,  and  the  British 
Constitution,  very  appropriate  subjects  for  his  poem.  .  .  .  THELWALL,  unlike 
Hardy,  had  the  weakness  of  vanity;  but  he  was  a  perfectly  honest  man,  and 
had  a  power  of  declamation  which  qualified  him  to  be  a  mob  orator.  He  used 
to  say  that  if  he  were  at  the  gallows  with  liberty  to  address  the  people  for  half- 
an-hour,  he  should  not  fear  the  result ;  he  was  sure  he  could  excite  them  to  a 
rescue.  I  became  acquainted  with  him  soon  after  his  acquittal,  and  never  ceased 
to  respect  him  for  his  sincerity,  though  I  did  not  think  highly  of  his  understand- 
ing."— Craltl)  Robinson't  Diary,  1790  and  1799.— ED.] 

[(4)  These  "Gagging  Bills,"  of  1796,  required  that  notice  should  be  given  to 
the  magistrate  of  any  public  meeting  to  be  held  on  political  subjects  ;  he  was 
authorized  to  be  present,  and  empowered  to  seize  those  guilty  of  sedition  on  the 
spot ;  and  a  second  offence  against  the  act  was  punishable  with  transportation. 
So  exasperated  were  the  Opposition  with  this  measure  that  Fox  and  a  large 
part  of  the  minority  withdrew  altogether  for  a  considerable  time  from  the 
House.— ED.] 

[(5)  The  hero  of  the  above  song  was  Charles  Howard,  eleventh  Duke  of  Nor- 
folk, who  both  as  a  member  of  the  House  of  Commons  (while  Earl  of  Surrey), 
and  afterwards  as  a  peer,  was  one  of  Fox's  most  strenuous  supporters.  SIR 
N.  WRAXALL  thus  describes  him :  "  Nature,  which  cast  him  in  her  coarsest 
mould,  had  not  bestowed  on  him  any  of  the  external  insignia  of  high  descent. 
His  person,  large,  muscular,  and  clumsy,  was  destitute  of  grace  or  dignity, 


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though  he  possessed  much  activity.  At  a  time  when  men  of  every  description 
wore  hair-powder  and  a  queue,  he  had  the  courage  to  cut  his  hair  short,  and  to 
renounce  powder,  which  lie  never  used  except  when  going  to  court.  In  his 
youth  he  led  a  most  licentious  life,  having  frequently  passed  the  whole  night  in 
excesses  of  every  kind,  and  even  lain  down,  when  intoxicated,  occasionally  to 
sleep  in  the  streets,  or  on  a  block  of  wood.  In  cleanliness  he  was  negligent  to 
so  great  a  degree  that  he  rarely  made  use  of  water  for  the  purpose  of  bodily  re- 
freshment and  comfort.  Complaining  one  day  to  Dudley  North  that  he  was  a 
martyr  to  the  rheumatism,  and  had  ineffectually  tried  every  remedy  for  its 
relief,  "Pray,  my  lord,"  said  he,  "did  you  ever  try  a  clean  shirt?"  It  must  not 
be  forgotten,  however,  that  he  was  a  munificent  patron  of  literature,  for  he 
defrayed  the  entire  expense  of  printing  Taylor's  Translation  of  Plato,  5  vols. 
4to. ;  Dallaway's  History  of  Sussex,  2  vols.  4to. ;  and  Duncumb's  History  of  Here- 
fordshire, 2  vols.  The  initials  B.  O.  B.  refer  to  Mr.  (afterwards  Sir  Robert)  Adair, 
who  is  often  alluded  to  in  these  pages.— ED.] 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  145 


No.  XXIII. 

April  16,  1798. 

WE  cannot  better  explain  to  our  readers  the  design 
of  the  poem  from  which  the  following  extracts  are 
taken,  than  by  borrowing  the  expressions  of  the  author, 
Mr.  HIGGINS,  of  St.  Mary  Axe,  in  the  letter  which  ac- 
companied the  manuscript. 

We  must  premise,  that  we  had  found  ourselves  called 
upon  to  remonstrate  with  Mr.  H.  on  the  freedom  of 
some  of  the  positions  laid  down  in  his  other  didactic 
poem,  the  "Progress  of  Man";  and  had  in  the  course 
of  our  remonstrance  hinted  something  to  the  disadvan- 
tage of  the  new  principles  which  are  now  afloat  in  the 
world,  and  which  are,  in  our  opinion,  working  so  much 
prejudice  to  the  happiness  of  mankind.  To  this  Mr.  H. 
takes  occasion  to  reply — * 

"What  you  call  the  new  principles  are,  in  fact,  nothing 
less  than  new.  They  are  the  principles  of  primeval  nature, 
the  system  of  original  and  unadulterated  man. 

[*  These  observations  are  directed  against  Godwin's  work 
on  "  Political  Justice,"  which,  on  its  first  appearance,  excited 
extraordinary  attention.  His  aim  was  to  represent  the  whole 
system  of  society  as  radically  and  essentially  wrong,  and  to 
extirpate  all  those  principles  which  uphold  its  present  constitu- 
tion. The  existence  of  the  Deity  is  spoken  of  as  an  hypothesis, 
and  the  ethics  are  worthy  of  the  religion.  HOLCROFT  reviewed 
it  in  the  "  Monthly  Beview,"  but  was  doubtful  whether  to 
praise  or  blame  it.— ED.] 

["I  noticed  (says  CRABB  ROBINSON  in  1811)  the  infinite 
superiority  of  GODWIN  over  the  French  writers  in  moral  feel- 
ing and  tendency.  I  had  learned  to  hate  Helvetius  and  Mira- 
beau,  and  yet  retained  my  love  for  GODWIN.  This  was  agreed 
to  as  a  just  sentiment." — ED.] 

10 


146  POETRY   OF 

"  If  you  mean  by  my  addiction  to  new  principles  that 
the  object  which  I  have  in  view  in  my  larger  work 
[meaning  the  '  Progress  of  Man '  ]  and  in  the  several 
other  concomitant  and  subsidiary  didactic  poems  which  are 
necessary  to  complete  my  plan,  is  to  restore  this  first, 
and  pure  simplicity;  to  rescue  and  to  recover  the  in- 
teresting nakedness  of  human  nature,  by  ridding  her 
of  the  cumbrous  establishments  which  the  folly,  and 
pride,  and  self-interest  of  the  worst  part  of  our  species 
have  heaped  upon  her; — you  are  right.  Such  is  my 
object.  I  do  not  disavow  it.  Nor  is  it  mine  alone. 
There  are  abundance  of  abler  hands  at  work  upon  it. 
Encyclopedias,  Treatises,  Novels,  Magazines,  Reviews,  and 
New  Annual  Registers,  have,  as  you  are  well  aware, 
done  their  part  with  activity  and  with  effect.  It  re- 
mained to  bring  the  heavy  artillery  of  a  didactic  poem 
to  bear  upon  the  same  object. 

"  If  I  have  selected  your  paper  as  the  channel  for 
conveying  my  labours  to  the  public,  it  was  not  because 
I  was  unaware  of  the  hostility  of  your  principles  to 
mine,  of  the  bigotry  of  your  attachment  to  '  things  as 
they  are,'  but  because,  I  will  fairly  own,  I  found  some 
sort  of  cover  and  disguise  necessary  for  securing  the 
favourable  reception  of  my  sentiments ;  the  usual  pre- 
texts of  humanity,  and  philanthropy,  and  fine  feeling, 
by  which  we  have  for  some  time  obtained  a  passport 
to  the  hearts  and  understandings  of  men,  being  now 
worn  out  or  exploded.  I  could  not  choose  but  smile 
at  my  success  in  the  first  instance,  in  inducing  you  to 
adopt  my  poem  as  your  own. 

"But  you  have  called  for  an  explanation  of  these 
principles  of  ours,  and  you  have  a  right  to  obtain  it. 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  147 

Our  first  principle  is,  then — the  reverse  of  the  trite 
and  dull  maxim  of  Pope — '  Whatever  is,  is  right'.  We 
contend,  that  '  Whatever  is,  is  icromj' ;  that  institutions, 
civil  and  religious,  that  social  order  (as  it  is  called 
in  your  cant)  and  regular  government,  and  law,  and  I 
know  not  what  other  fantastic  inventions,  are  but  so 
many  cramps  and  fetters  on  the  free  agency  of  man's 
natural  intellect  and  moral  sensibility ;  so  many  badges 
of  his  degradation  from  the  primal  purity  and  excellence 
of  his  nature. 

' '  Our  second  principle  is,  the  '  eternal  and  absolute 
perfectibility  of  man '.  We  contend,  that  if,  as  is  demon- 
strable, we  have  risen  from  a  level  with  the  cabbages 
of  the  field  to  our  present  comparatively  intelligent  and 
dignified  state  of  existence,  by  the  mere  exertion  of 
our  own  energies  ;  we  should,  if  these  energies  were  not  re- 
pressed and  subdued  by  the  operation  of  prejudice, 
and  folly,  by  KING-CBAFT  and  PBIEST-CBAFT,  and  the 
other  evils  incident  to  what  is  called  civilized  society, 
continue  to  exert  and  expand  ourselves  in  a  proportion 
infinitely  greater  than  anything  of  which  we  yet  have 
any  notion : — in  a  ratio  hardly  capable  of  being  cal- 
culated by  any  science  of  which  we  are  now  masters : 
but  which  would  in  time  raise  man  from  his  present 
biped  state  to  a  rank  more  worthy  of  his  endowments 
and  aspirations ;  to  a  rank  in  which  he  would  be,  as  it 
were,  all  MIND  ;  would  enjoy  unclouded  perspicacity  and 
perpetual  vitality;  feed  on  oxygene,  and  never  die,  but 
by  his  own  consent. 

"But  though  the  poem  of  the  PBOGBESS  OF  MAN 
alone  would  be  sufficient  to  teach  this  system  and 
enforce  these  doctrines,  the  whole  practical  effect  of 


148  POETKY    OF 

them  cannot  be  expected  to  be  produced,  but  by  the 
gradual  perfecting  of  each  of  the  sublimer  sciences ; — 
at  the  husk  and  shell  of  which  we  are  now  nibbling  and 
at  the  kernel  whereof,  in  our  present  state,  we  cannot 
hope  to  arrive.  These  several  sciences  will  be  the 
subjects  of  the  several  auxiliary  DIDACTIC  POEMS  which 
I  have  now  in  hand  (one  of  which,  entitled  THE  LOVES 
OF  THE  TRIANGLES,  I  herewith  transmit  to  you),  and  for 
the  better  arrangement  and  execution  of  which,  I 
beseech  you  to  direct  your  bookseller  to  furnish  me  with 
a  handsome  Chambers's  Dictionary ;  in  order  that  I  may 
be  enabled  to  go  through  the  several  articles  alphabeti- 
cally, beginning  with  Abracadabra,  under  the  first  letter, 
and  going  down  to  Zodiac,  which  is  to  be  found  under 
the  last. 

"  I  am  persuaded  that  there  is  no  science,  however 
abstruse,  nay,  no  trade  or  manufacture,  which  may  not 
be  taught  by  a  didactic  poem.  In  that  before  you,  an 
attempt  is  made  (not  unsuccessfully,  I  hope)  to  enlist  the 
imagination  under  the  banners  of  Geometry.  Botany  I  found 
done  to  my  hands.  And  though  the  more  rigid  and  un- 
bending stiffness  of  a  mathematical  subject  does  not 
admit  of  the  same  appeals  to  the  warmer  passions, 
which  naturally  arise  out  of  the  sexual  (or,  as  I  have 
heard  several  worthy  gentlewomen  of  my  acquaintance, 
who  delight  much  in  the  poem  to  which  I  allude,  term 
it,  by  a  slight  misnomer  no  way  difficult  to  be  accounted 
for — the  sensual]  system  of  Linnasus ; — yet  I  trust  that 
the  range  and  variety  of  illustration  with  which  I  have 
endeavoured  to  ornament  and  enlighten  the  arid  truths 
of  Euclid  and  Algebra,  will  be  found  to  have  smoothed 
the  road  of  Demonstration,  to  have  softened  the  rugged 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  149 

features  of  Elementary  Propositions,  and,  as  it  were,  to 
have  strewed  the  Asses'  Bridge  with  flowers." 

Such  is  the  account  which  Mr.  HIGGINS  gives  of  his 
own  undertaking,  and  of  the  motives  which  have  led  him 
to  it.  For  our  parts,  though  we  have  not  the  same 
sanguine  persuasion  of  the  absolute  perfectibility  of  our 
species,  and  are  in  truth  liable  to  the  imputation  of  being 
more  satisfied  with  things  as  they  are,  than  Mr.  HIGGINS 
and  his  associates  ; — yet,  as  we  are,  in  at  least  the  same 
proportion,  less  convinced  of  the  practical  influence  of 
didactic  poems,  we  apprehend  little  danger  to  our 
readers'  morals  from  laying  before  them  Mr.  HIGGINS'S 
doctrine  in  its  most  fascinating  shape.  The  poem 
abounds,  indeed,  with  beauties  of  the  most  striking  kind, 
— various  and  vivid  imagery,  bold  and  unsparing  imper- 
sonifications ;  and  similitudes  and  illustrations  brought 
from  the  most  ordinary  and  the  most  extraordinary 
occurrences  of  nature — from  history  and  fable — appeal- 
ing equally  to  the  heart  and  to  the  understanding,  and 
calculated  to  make  the  subject  of  which  the  poem 
professes  to  treat  rather  amusing  than  intelligible.  We 
shall  be  agreeably  surprised  to  hear  that  it  has  assisted 
any  young  student  at  either  University  in  his  mathe- 
matical studies. 

We  need  hardly  add,  that  the  plates  illustrative  of  this 
poem  (the  engravings  of  which  would  have  been  too 
expensive  for  our  publication)  are  to  be  found  in  Euclid's 
Elements,  and  other  books  of  a  similar  tendency. 


150  POETKY   OF 

LOVES   OF  THE  TEIANGLES.* 

ARGUMENT   OF   THE   FIEST    CANTO. 

Warning  to  the  profane  not  to  approach — Nymphs  and  Deities 
of  Mathematical  Mythology — Cyclois  of  a  pensive  turn — 
Pendulums,  on  the  contrary,  playful — and  why? — Senti- 
mental Union  of  the  Naiads  and  Hydrostatics — Marriage  of 
Euclid  and  Algebra. — Pulley  the  emblem  of  Mechanics — 
Optics  of  a  licentious  disposition — distinguished  by  her  tele- 
scope and  green  spectacles. — Hyde-Park  Gate  on  a  Sunday 
morning — Cockneys — Coaches. — Didactic  Poetry — Nonsensia 
— Love  delights  in  Angles  or  Corners — Theory  of  Fluxions 
explained — Trochais,  the  Nymph  of  the  Wheel — Smoke-Jack 
described — Personification  of  elementary  or  culinary  Fire. — 
Little  Jack  Horner — Story  of  Cinderella — Rectangle,  a  Magi- 
cian, educated  by  Plato  and  Menecmus — in  love  with  Three 
Curves  at  the  same  time — served  by  Gins,  or  Genii — trans- 
forms himself  into  a  Cone — the  Three  Curves  requite  his 
passion — Description  of  them — Parabola,  Hyperbola,  and 
Ellipsis — Asymptotes — Conjugated  Axes. — Illustrations  — 
Eewbell,  Barras,  and  Lepaux,  the  three  virtuous  Directors — 
Macbeth  and  the  Three  Witches — the  Three  Fates — the 
Three  Graces — King  Lear  and  his  Three  Daughters — Derby 
Diligence — Catherine  Wheel. — Catastrophe  of  Mr.  Gingham, 
with  his  Wife  and  Three  Daughters  overturned  in  a  One-horse 
Chaise — Dislocation  and  Contusion  two  kindred  Fiends — Mail 
Coaches — Exhortation  to  Drivers  to  be  careful — Genius  of  the 
Post-Office  —  Invention  of  Letters  —  Digamma  —  Double 
Letters — Remarkable  Direction  of  one — Hippona  the  God- 
dess of  Hack-horses — Parameter  and  Abscissa  unite  to  over- 
power the  Ordinate,  who  retreats  down  the  Axis-Major,  and 
forms  himself  in  a  Square — Isosceles,  a  Giant — Dr.  Rhomboides 
— Fifth  Proposition,  or  Asses'  Bridge — Bridge  of  Lodi — 
Buonaparte  —  Raft  and  Windmills  —  Exhortation  to  the 
recovery  of  our  Freedom — Conclusion. 

[*  Written  in  ridicule  of  Dr.  DARWIN'S  Loves  of  the  Plants.'] 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  151 

THE   LOVES  OF  THE  TEIANGLES. 
3^  ^athnnatical  anb  philosophical  %otm, 

INSCRIBED   TO   DR.    DARWIN. 

CANTO  I. 

STAY  your  rude  steps,  or  e'er  your  feet  invade 
The  Muses'  haunts,  ye  sons  of  War  and  Trade ! 
Nor  you,  ye  legion  fiends  of  Church  and  Law, 
Pollute  these  pages  with  unhallow'd  paw  ! 
Debased,  corrupted,  grovelling,  and  confined,  5 

No  DEFINITIONS  touch  your  senseless  mind ; 
To  you  no  POSTULATES  prefer  their  claim, 
No  ardent  AXIOMS  your  dull  souls  inflame ; 
For  you  no  TANGENTS  touch,  no  ANGLES  meet, 
No  CIECLES  join  in  osculation  sweet !  10 

For  me,   ye  CISSOIDS,  round  my  temples  bend 
Your  wandering  curves ;  ye  CONCHOIDS  extend ; 

Ver.  1 — 4.  Imitated  from  the  introductory  couplet  to  the 
Economy  of  Vegetation : 

"  Stay  your  rude  steps,  whose  throbbing  breasts  infold 

The  legion  fiends  of  glory  and  of  gold  ". 
This  sentiment  is  here  expanded  into  four  lines. 

Ver.  6.  Definition — A  distinct  notion  explaining  the  genesis 
of  a  thing. —  JVolfius. 

Ver.  7.  Postulate— A.  self-evident  proposition. 

Ver.  8.  Axiom — An  indemonstrable  truth. 

Ver.  9.  Tangents — So  called  from  touching,  because  they 
touch  circles,  and  never  cut  them. 

Ver.  10.  Circles — See  Chambers's  Dictionary,  article  "Circle". 

Ver.  10.  Osculation — For  the  osculation,  or  kissing  of  circles 
and  other  curves,  see  Huygens,  who  has  veiled  this  delicate 
and  inflammatory  subject  in  the  decent  obscurity  of  a  learned 
language. 

Ver.  11.  Cissois — A  curve  supposed  to  resemble  the  sprig  of 
ivy,  from  which  it  has  its  name,  and  therefore  peculiarly 
adapted  to  poetry. 

Ver.  12.  Conchois,  or  Conchylis — A  most  beautiful  and  pictur- 


152  POETRY    OF 

Let  playful  PENDULBS  quick  vibration  feel, 

While  silent  CYCLOIS  rests  upon  her  wheel ; 

Let  HYDROSTATICS,  simpering  as  they  go, .  15 

Lead  the  light  Naiads  on  fantastic  toe ; 

Let  shrill  ACOUSTICS  tune  the  tiny  lyre  ; 

With  EUCLID  sage  fair  ALGEBRA  conspire ; 

The  obedient  pulley  strong  MECHANICS  ply, 

And  wanton  OPTICS  roll  the  melting  eye  !  20 

I  see  the  fair  fantastic  forms  appear, 
The  flaunting  drapery,  and  the  languid  leer ; 
Fair  sylphish  forms — who,  tall,  erect,  and  slim, 
Dart  the  keen  glance,  and  stretch  the  length  of  limb ; 
To  viewless  harpings  weave  the  meanless  dance,  25 

Wave  the  gay  wreath,  and  titter  as  they  prance. 

Such  rich  confusion  charms  the  ravish'd  sight, 
When  vernal  Sabbaths  to  the  Park  invite. 

esque  curve ;  it  bears  a  fanciful  resemblance  to  a  conch,  shell. 
The  conchois  is  capable  of  infinite  extension,  and  presents  a 
striking  analogy  between  the  animal  and  mathematical  creation 
— every  individual  of  this  species  containing  within  itself  a 
series  of  young  conchoids  for  several  generations,  in  the  same 
manner  as  the  Aphides  and  other  insect  tribes  are  observed  to  do. 

Ver.  15.  Hydrostatics — Water  has  been  supposed,  by  several 
of  our  philosophers,  to  be  capable  of  the  passion  of  love.  Some 
later  experiments  appear  to  favour  this  idea.  Water,  when 
pressed  by  a  moderate  degree  of  heat,  has  been  observed  to 
simper,  or  simmer,  as  it  is  more  usually  called.  The  same  does 
not  hold  true  of  any  other  element. 

Ver.  17.  Acoustics — The  doctrine  or  theory  of  sound. 

Ver.  18.  Euclid  and  Algebra — The  loves  and  nuptials  of  these 
two  interesting  personages,  forming  a  considerable  episode  in 
the  third  canto,  are  purposely  omitted  here. 

Ver.  19.  Pulley — So  called  from  our  Saxon  word  to  PULL, 
signifying  to  pull  or  draw. 

Ver.  23.  Fair  sylphish  forms — Vide  modern  prints  of  nymphs 
and  shepherds  dancing  to  nothing  at  all. 

Ver.  27.  Such  rich  confusion — Imitated  from  the   following 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  153 

Mounts  the  thick  dust,  the  coaches  crowd  along, 
Presses  round  Grosvenor  Gate  th'  impatient  throng ;     30 
White-muslined  misses  and  mammas  are  seen, 
Linked  with  gay  cockneys,  glittering  o'er  the  green  : 
The  rising  breeze  unnumbered  charms  displays, 
And  the  tight  ankle  strikes  th'  astonished  gaze. 

But  chief,  thou  Nurse  of  the  Didactic  Muse,  35 

Divine  NONSENSIA,  all  thy  soul  infuse  ; 
The  charms  of  Secants  and  of  Tangents  tell, 
How  Loves  and  Graces  in  an  Angle  dwell ; 
How  slow  progressive  Points  protract  the  Line, 
As  pendent  spiders  spin  the  filmy  twine ;  40 

How  lengthened  Lines,  impetuous  sweeping  round, 
Spread  the  wide  Plane,  and  mark  its  circling  bound ; 

genteel  and  sprightly  lines  in  the  first  canto  of  the  "  Loves  of 
the  Plants" : 

"  So  bright  its  folding  canopy  withdrawn, 
Glides  the  gilt  landau  o'er  the  velvet  lawn, 
Of  beaux  and  belles  displays  the  glittering  throng, 
And  soft  airs  fan  them  as  they  glide  along  ". 

Ver.  38.  Angle — Gratus  puellse  risus  ab  Angulo. — Hor. 

Ver.  39.  How  slow  progressive  Points — The  Author  has  reserved 
the  picturesque  imagery  which  the  theory  of  fluxions  naturally 
suggested  for  his  "Algebraic  Garden,"  where  the  fluents  are 
described  as  rolling  with  an  even  current  between  a  margin  of 
curves  of  the  higher  order  over  a  pebbly  channel,  inlaid  with 
differential  calculi. 

In  the  following  six  lines  he  has  confined  himself  to  a  strict 
explanation  of  the  theory,  according  to  which  lines  are  supposed 
to  be  generated  by  the  motion  of  points,  planes  by  the  lateral 
motion  of  lines,  and  solids  from  planes,  by  a  similar  process. 

Qucere — Whether  a  practical  application  of  this  theory  would 
not  enable  us  to  account  for  the  genesis  or  original  formation  of 
space  itself,  in  the  same  manner  in  which  Dr.  Darwin  has 
traced  the  whole  of  the  organized  creation  to  his  six  filaments 
— Vide  Zoonomia.  We  may  conceive  the  whole  of  our  present 
universe  to  have  been  originally  concentred  in  a  single  point ; 


154  POETRY   OF 

How  Planes,  their  substance  with  their  motion  grown, 
Form  the  huge  Cube,  the  Cylinder,  the  Cone. 

we  may  conceive  this  primeval  point,  or  punctum  saliens  of  the 
universe,  evolving  itself  by  its  own  energies,  to  have  moved 
forward  in  a  right  line,  ad  infinitum,,  till  it  grew  tired  ;  after 
which  the  right  line  which  it  had  generated  would  begin  to  put 
itself  in  motion  in  a  lateral  direction,  describing  an  area  of 
infinite  extent.  This  area,  as  soon  as  it  became  conscious  of 
its  own  existence,  would  begin  to  ascend  or  descend,  according 
as  its  specific  gravity  might  determine  it,  forming  an  immense 
solid  space  filled  with  vacuum,  and  capable  of  containing  the 
present  existing  universe. 

Space  being  thus  obtained,  and  presenting  a  suitable  nidus, 
or  receptacle  for  the  generation  of  chaotic  matter,  an  immense 
deposit  of  it  would  gradually  be  accumulated ;  after  which,  the 
filament  of  fire  being  produced  in  the  chaotic  mass  by  an  idio- 
syncrasy, or  self-formed  habit,  analogous  to  fermentation,  explo- 
sion would  take  place ;  suns  would  be  shot  from  the  central 
chaos  ;  planets  from  suns ;  and  satellites  from  planets.  In  this 
state  of  things  the  filament  of  organization  would  begin  to  exert 
itself  in  those  independent  masses  which,  in  proportion  to  their 
bulk,  exposed  the  greatest  surface  to  the  action  of  light  and  heat. 
This  filament,  after  an  infinite  series  of  ages,  would  begin  to 
ramify,  and  its  viviparous  offspring  would  diversify  their  forms 
and  habits,  so  as  to  accommodate  themselves  to  the  various 
incunabula  which  Nature  had  prepared  for  them.  Upon  this 
view  of  things  it  seems  highly  probable  that  the  first  effort  of 
Nature  terminated  in  the  production  of  vegetables,  and  that 
these,  being  abandoned  to  their  own  energies,  by  degrees 
detached  themselves  from  the  surface  of  the  earth,  and  supplied 
themselves  with  wings  or  feet,  according  as  their  different  pro- 
pensities determined  them  in  favour  of  aerial  and  terrestrial 
existence.  Others,  by  an  inherent  disposition  to  society  and 
civilization,  and  by  a  stronger  effort  of  volition,  would  become 
men.  These,  in  time,  would  restrict  themselves  to  the  use  of 
their  hind  feet;  their  tails  would  gradually  rub  off  by  sitting 
in  their  caves  or  huts,  as  soon  as  they  arrived  at  a  domesti- 
cated state ;  they  would  invent  language  and  the  use  of  fire, 
with  our  present  and  hitherto  imperfect  system  of  society. 
In  the  meanwhile,  the  Fuci  and  Algce,  with  the  Corallines 
and  Madrepores,  would  transform  themselves  into  fish,  and 
would  gradually  populate  all  the  submarine  portion  of  the 
globe. 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  155 

Lo  !  where  the  chimney's  sooty  tube  ascends,  45 

The  fair  TROCHAIS  from  the  corner  bends  ! 
Her  coal-black  eyes  upturned,  incessant  mark 
The  eddying  smoke,  quick  flame,  and  volant  spark ; 
Mark  with  quick  ken,  where  flashing  in  between, 
Her  much-loved  Smoke-Jack  glimmers  thro'  the  scene ;  50 
Mark,  how  his  various  parts  together  tend, 
Point  to  one  purpose, — in  one  object  end ; 
The  spiral  grooves  in  smooth  meanders  flow, 
Drags  the  long  chain,  the  polished  axles  glow, 
While  slowly  circumvolves  the  piece  of  beef  below ;       55 
The  conscious  fire  with  bickering  radiance  burns, 
Eyes  the  rich  joint,  and  roasts  it  as  it  turns. 

So  youthful  Horner  rolled  the  roguish  eye, 
Cull'd  the  dark  plum  from  out  his  Christmas  pie, 
And    cried,    in    self-applause — "How    good    a    boy 
am  I ".  60 

So  she,  sad  victim  of  domestic  spite, 
Fair  Cinderella,  pass'd  the  wintry  night, 
In  the  lone  chimney's  darksome  nook  immured, 
Her  form  disfigured,  and  her  charms  obscured. 
Sudden  her  godmother  appears  in  sight,  65 

Lifts  the  charmed  rod,  and  chants  the  mystic  rite. 
The  chanted  rite  the  maid  attentive  hears, 

Ver.  46.  Trochais — The  Nymph  of  the  Wheel,  supposed  to  be 
in  love  with  Smoke-Jack. 

Ver.  56.  The  conscious  fire — The  sylphs  and  genii  of  the 
different  elements  have  a  variety  of  innocent  occupations 
assigned  them  ;  those  of  fire  are  supposed  to  divert  themselves 
with  writing  Kunkel  in  phosphorus. — See  Economy  of  Vegeta- 
tion: 

"  Or  mark,  with  shining  letters,  Kunkel's  name 
In  the  pale  phosphor's  self-consuming  flame". 


156  POETBY   OF 

And  feels  new  ear-rings  deck  her  listening  ears ; 

While  'midst  her  towering  tresses,  aptly  set, 

Shines    bright,    with    quivering    glance,    the    smart 

aigrette ;  70 

Brocaded  silks  the  splendid  dress  complete, 
And  the  Glass  Slipper  grasps  her  fairy  feet. 
Six  cock-tailed  mice  transport  her  to  the  ball, 
And  liveried  lizards  wait  upon  her  call. 
Alas  !  that  partial  Science  should  approve 
The  sly  EECTANGLE'S  too  licentious  love  ! 
For  three  bright  nymphs,  &c.,  &c. 

(To  be  continued.) 


Ver.  68.  Listening  ears — Listening,  and  therefore  peculiarly 
suited  to  a  pair  of  diamond  ear-rings.  See  the  description  of 
Nebuchadnezzar  in  his  transformed  state — 

"  Nor  flattery's  self  can  pierce  his  pendent  ears  ". 

In  poetical  diction,  a  person  is  said  to  "  breathe  the  BLUE  air," 
and  to  "drink  the  HOARSE  wave!"— not  that  the  colour  of  the 
sky  or  the  noise  of  the  water  has  any  reference  to  drinking  or 
breathing,  but  because  the  poet  obtains  the  advantage  of  thus 
describing  his  subject  under  a  double  relation,  in  the  same 
manner  in  which  material  objects  present  themselves  to  our 
different  senses  at  the  same  time. 

Ver.  73.  Cock-tailed  mice — Coctilibus  Muris.  Ovid.—  -There 
is  reason  to  believe  that  the  murine,  or  mouse  species,  were 
anciently  much  more  numerous  than  at  the  present  day.  It 
appears  from  the  sequel  of  the  line,  that  Semiramis  surrounded 
the  city  of  Babylon  with  a  number  of  these  animals. 

Dicitur  altam 
Coctilibus  Muris  cinxisse  Semiramis  urbem. 

It  is  not  easy  at  present  to  form  any  conjecture  with  respect 
to  the  end,  whether  of  ornament  or  defence,  which  they  could 
be  supposed  to  answer.  I  should  be  inclined  to  believe,  that  in 
this  instance  the  mice  were  dead,  and  that  so  vast  a  collection 
of  them  must  have  been  furnished  by  way  of  tribute,  to  free  the 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN. 


157 


country  from  these  destructive  animals.  This  superabundance 
of  the  murine  race  must  have  been  owing  to  their  immense 
fecundity,  and  to  the  comparatively  tardy  reproduction  of  the 
feline  species.  The  traces  of  this  disproportion  are  to  be  found 
in  the  early  history  of  every  country. — The  ancient  laws  of 
Wales  estimate  a  cat  at  the  price  of  as  much  corn  as  would  be 
sufficient  to  cover  her,  if  she  were  suspended  by  the  tail  with 
her  fore-feet  touching  the  ground. — See  Howel  Dha.  — In  Ger- 
many, it  is  recorded  that  an  army  of  rats,  a  larger  animal  of  the 
mus  tribe,  was  employed  as  the  ministers  of  divine  vengeance 
against  a  feudal  tyrant ;  and  the  commercial  legend  of  our  own 
"Whittington  might  probably  be  traced  to  an  equally  authentic 
origin. 


158  POETBY   OF 


No.   XXIV. 

April  23,  1798. 
THE    LOVES    OF    THE    TEIANGLES. 

Jl  dttathmatical  anb  philosophical  |Jocm. 
(Continued.) 

CANTO     I. 

ALAS  !  that  partial  Science  should  approve  75 

The  sly  EECTANGLE'S  too  licentious  love ! 

For  three  bright  nymphs  the  wily  wizard  burns ; — 

Three  bright-eyed  nymphs  requite  his  flame  by  turns. 

Strange  force  of  magic  skill !  combined  of  yore 

"With  Plato's  science  and  Menecmus'  lore.  80 

In  Afric's  school,  amid  those  sultry  sands 

High  on  its  base  where  Pompey's  pillar  stands, 

This  learnt  the  Seer ;  and  learnt,  alas  !  too  well, 

Each  scribbled  talisman,  and  smoky  spell : 

Ver.  76.  Rectangle — "  A  figure  which  has  one  angle,  or  more, 
of  ninety  degrees  ".  Johnson's  Dictionary. — It  here  means  a  right- 
angled  triangle,  which  is  therefore  incapable  of  having  more 
than  one  angle  of  ninety  degrees,  but  which  may,  according  to 
our  author's  Prosopopoeia,  be  supposed  to  be  in  love  with  three, 
or  any  greater  number  of  nymphs. 

Ver.  80.  Plato's  and  Menecmus'  lore — Proclus  attributes  the 
discovery  of  the  conic  sections  to  Plato,  but  obscurely.  Era- 
tosthenes seems  to  adjudge  it  to  Menecmus.  "  Neque  Menecmeos 
necesse  erit  in  cono  secare  ternarios.'"  (Vide  Montucla.)  From 
Greece  they  were  carried  to  Alexandria,  where  (according  to 
our  author's  beautiful  fiction)  Rectangle  either  did  or  might 
learn  magic. 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  159 

What  muttered  charms,  what  soul-subduing  arts,          85 
Pell  Zatanai  to  his  sons  imparts. 

GINS — black  and  huge !  who  in  Dom-Daniel's  cave 
Writhe  your  scorched  limbs  on  sulphur's  azure  wave ; 
Or,  shivering,  yell  amidst  eternal  snows, 
Where  cloud-capp'd  Caf  protrudes  his  granite  toes ;       90 
(Bound  by  his  will,  Judcea's  fabled  king, 
Lord  of  Aladdin's  lamp  and  mystic  ring.) 
Gins  !  ye  remember ! — for  your  toil  conveyed 
Whate'er  of  drugs  the  powerful  charm  could  aid ; 
Air,  earth,  and  sea  ye  searched,  and  where  below          95 
Flame  embryo  lavas,  young  volcanoes  glow, — 

Ver.  86.  Zatanai — Supposed  to  be  the  same  with  Satan. — 
Vide  the  New  Arabian  Nights,  translated  by  Cazotte,  author  of 
" Le  Diable  amoureiix". 

Ver.  87.  Gins — the  Eastern  name  for  Genii. — Vide  Tales  of 
ditto. 

Ver.  87.  Dom-Daniel — a  sub-marine  palace  near  Tunis,  where 
Zatanai  usually  held  his  court. — Vide  New  Arabian  Nights. 

Ver.  88.  Sulphur — A  substance  which,  when  cold,  reflects 
the  yellow  rays,  and  is  therefore  said  to  be  yellow.  When 
raised  to  a  temperature  at  which  it  attracts  oxygene  (a  process 
usually  called  burning),  it  emits  a  blue  flame.  This  may  be 
beautifully  exemplified,  and  at  a  moderate  expense,  by  igniting 
those  fasciculi  of  brimstone  matches,  frequently  sold  (so  fre- 
quently, indeed,  as  to  form  one  of  the  London  cries)  by  women 
of  an  advanced  age,  in  this  metropolis.  They  will  be  found  to 
yield  an  azure,  or  blue  light. 

Ver.  90.  Caf — the  Indian  Caucasus.  — Vide  Bailly's  Lettres  sur 
I'Atlantide,  in  which  he  proves  that  this  was  the  native  country 
of  Gog  and  Magog  (now  resident  in  Guildhall),  as  well  as  of  the 
Peris,  or  fairies,  of  the  Asiatic  romances. 

Ver.  91.  Judcea's  fabled  king — Mr.  HIGGINS  does  not  mean  to 
deny  that  Solomon  was  really  king  of  Judaea.  The  epithet 
fabled  applies  to  that  empire  over  the  Genii,  which  the  retro- 
spective generosity  of  the  Arabian  fabulists  has  bestowed  upon 
this  monarch. 

Ver.  96.  Young  volcanoes — The  genesis  of  burning  mountains 
was  never,  till  lately,  well  explained.  Those  with  which  we  are 


160  POETRY   OF 

Gins  !  ye  beheld  appall'd  th'  enchanter's  hand 

Wave  in  dark  air  th'  Hypotliemisal  wand ; 

Saw  him  the  mystic  Circle  trace,  and  wheel 

With  head  erect,  and  far-extended  heel ;  100 

Saw  him,  with  speed  that  mocked  the  dazzled  eye, 

Self- whirled,  in  quick  gyrations  eddying  fly : 

Till  done  the  potent  spell — behold  him  grown 

Fair  Venus  emblem — the  Phoenician  CONE. 


best  acquainted  are  certainly  not  viviparous ;  it  is  therefore 
probable,  that  there  exists,  in  the  centre  of  the  earth,  a  con- 
siderable reservoir  of  their  eggs,  which,  diiring  the  obstetrical 
convulsions  of  general  earthquakes,  produce  new  volcanoes. 

Ver.  100.  Far-extended  heel — The  personification  of  Rectangle^ 
besides  answering  a  poetical  purpose,  was  necessary  to  illus- 
trate Mr.  HIGGINS'S  philosophical  opinions.  The  ancient 
mathematicians  conceived  that  a  cone  was  generated  by  the 
revolution  of  a  triangle ;  but  this,  as  our  author  justly  observes, 
would  be  impossible,  without  supposing  in  the  triangle  that 
expansive  nisus,  discovered  by  Blumenbach,  and  improved  by 
Darwin,  wbich  is  peculiar  to  animated  matter,  and  which  alone 
explains  tbe  whole  mystery  of  organization.  Our  enchanter  sits 
on  the  ground,  with  his  heels  stretched  out,  his  head  erect,  his 
wand  (or  hijpothenuse)  resting  on  the  extremities  of  his  feet  and 
the  tip  of  bis  nose  (as  is  finely  expressed  in  the  engraving  in  tbe 
original  work),  and  revolves  upon  his  bottom  with  great  velocity. 
His  skin,  by  magical  means,  has  acquired  an  indefinite  power  of 
expansion,  as  well  as  that  of  assimilating  to  itself  all  the  azote 
of  the  air,  which  he  decomposes  by  expiration  from  his  lungs — 
an  immense  quantity,  and  which,  in  our  present  unimproved 
and  uneconomical  mode  of  breathing,  is  quite  thrown  away. 
By  this  simple  process  the  transformation  is  very  naturally 
accounted  for. 

Ver.  104.  Phoenician  Cone — It  was  under  this  shape  that 
Venus  was  worshipped  in  Phrenicia.  Mr.  HIGGINS  thinks  it 
was  the  Venus  Urania,  or  Celestial  Venus ;  in  allusion  to  which, 
the  Phoenician  grocers  first  introduced  the  practice  of  preserving 
sugar-loaves  in  blue  or  sky-coloured  paper — he  also  believes 
that  the  conical  form  of  the  original  grenadier's  cap  was  typical 
of  the  loves  of  Mars  and  Venus. 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  161 

Triumphs  the  Seer,  and  now  secure  observes  105 

The  kindling  passions  of  the  rival  CURVES. 

And  first,  the  fair  PARABOLA  behold, 
Her  timid  arms,  with  virgin  blush,  unfold  ! 
Though,  on  one  focus  fixed,  her  eyes  betray 
A  heart  that  glows  with  love's  resistless  sway;  110 

Though,  climbing  oft,  she  strives  with  bolder  grace 
Bound  his  tall  neck  to  clasp  her  fond  embrace, 
Still  ere  she  reach  it,  from  his  polished  side 
Her  trembling  hands  in  devious  Tangents  glide. 

Not  thus  HYPERBOLA; — with  subtlest  art  115 

The  blue-eyed  wanton  plays  her  changeful  part ; 
Quick  as  her  conjugated  axes  move 
Through  every  posture  of  luxurious  love, 
Her  sportive  limbs  with  easiest  grace  expand  ; 
Her  charms  unveiled  provoke  the  lover's  hand ;  120 

Unveiled,  except  in  many  a  filmy  ray, 
Where  light  Asymptotes  o'er  her  bosom  play, 
Nor  touch  her  glowing  skin,  nor  intercept  the  day. 

Yet  why,  ELLIPSIS,  at  thy  fate  repine  ? 
More  lasting  bliss,  securer  joys  are  thine.  125 

Ver.  107.  Parabola—  The  curve  described  by  projectiles  of 
all  sorts,  as  bombs,  shuttlecocks,  &c. 

Ver.  115.  Hyperbola — Not  figuratively  speaking,  as  in  rhetoric, 
but  mathematically  ;  and  therefore  blue-eyed. 

Ver.  122.  Asymptotes — "  Lines,  which  though  they  may  ap- 
proach still  nearer  together  till  they  are  nearer  than  the  least 
assignable  distance,  yet  being  still  produced  infinitely,  will  never 
meet  ". — Johnson's  Dictionary, 

Ver.  124.  Ellipsis— A.  curve,  the  revolution  of  which  on  its 
axis  produces  an  ellipsoid,  or  solid  resembling  the  eggs  of  birds, 
particularly  those  of  the  gallinaceous  tribe.  Ellipsis  is  the  only 
curve  that  embraces  the  cone. 

11 


162  POETBY    OF 

Though  to  each  fair  his  treacherous  wish  may  stray, 
Though  each,  in  turn,  may  seize  a  transient  sway, 
'Tis  thine  with  mild  coercion  to  restrain, 
Twine  round  his  struggling  heart,  and  bind  with  endless 
chain. 

Thus,  happy  France  !  in  thy  regenerate  land,      .      130 
Where  TASTE  with  EAPINE  saunters  hand  in  hand ; 
Where,  nursed  in  seats  of  innocence  and  bliss, 
REFORM  greets  TERROR  with  fraternal  kiss ; 
Where  mild  PHILOSOPHY  first  taught  to  scan 
The  wrongs  of  PROVIDENCE,  and  rights  of  Man ;  135 

Where  MEMORY  broods  o'er  FREEDOM'S  earlier  scene, 
The  Lantern  bright,  and  brighter  Guillotine  ; 
Three  gentle  swains  evolve  their  longing  arms, 
And  woo  the  young  REPUBLIC'S  virgin  charms  ; 
And  though  proud  Barras  with  the  fair  succeed,  140 

Though  not  in  vain  th'  Attorney  Rewbell  plead, 
Oft  doth  th'  impartial  nymph  their  love  forego, 
To  clasp  thy  crooked  shoulders,  blest  Lepaux  ! 

So,  with  dark  dirge  athwart  the  blasted  heath, 
Three  Sister  Witches  hailed  the  appalled  Macbeth.      145 

So,  the  Three  Fates  beneath  grim  Pluto's  roof, 
Strain  the  dun  warp,  and  weave  the  murky  woof ; 
'Till  deadly  Atropos  with  fatal  shears 
Slits  the  thin  promise  of  the  expected  years, 
While  'midst  the  dungeon's  gloom  or  battle's  din,        150 
Ambition's  victims  perish,  as  they  spin. 

Thus,  the  Three  Graces  on  the  Idalian  green 
Bow  with  deft  homage  to  Cythera's  Queen  ; 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  163 

Her  polished  arms  with  pearly  bracelets  deck, 

Part  her  light  locks,  and  bare  her  ivory  neck  ;  155 

Bound  her  fair  form  ethereal  odours  throw, 

And  teach  th'  unconscious  zephyrs  where  to  blow, 

Floats  the  thin  gauze,  and  glittering  as  they  play, 

The  bright  folds  flutter  in  phlogistic  day, 

So,  with  his  daughters  Three,  th'  unsceptered  Lear  160 
Heaved  the  loud  sigh,  and  poured  the  glistering  tear  : 
His  daughters  Three,  save  one  alone,  conspire 
(Eich  in  his  gifts)  to  spurn  their  generous  sire  ; 
Bid  the  rude  storm  his  hoary  tresses  drench, 
Stint  the  spare  meal,  the  hundred  knights  retrench  ;  165 
Mock  his  mad  sorrow,  and  with  altered  mien 
Een  ounce  the  daughter,  and  assert  the  queen. 
A  father's  griefs  his  feeble  frame  convulse, 
Eack  his  white  head,  and  fire  his  feverous  pulse  ; 
Till  kind  Cordelia  soothes  his  soul  to  rest,  170 

And  folds  the  parent-monarch  to  her  breast. 

Thus  some  fair  spinster  grieves  in  wild  affright, 
Vexed  with  dull  megrim,  or  vertigo  light ; 
Pleased  round  the  fair,  Three  dawdling  doctors  stand, 
Wave  the  white  wig,  and  stretch  the  asking  hand,       175 
State  the  grave  doubt,  the  nauseous  draught  decree, 
And  all  receive,  though  none  deserve,  a  fee. 

So  down  thy  hill,  romantic  Ashbourn,*  glides 
The  Derby  dilly,  carrying  Three  INSIDES. 

[*  "  Komantic  Ashbourn."  The  road  down  Ashbourn  Hill 
winds  in  front  of  Ashbourn  Hall,  then  the  residence  of  the  Rev. 
Mr.  Leigh,  who  married  a  relation  of  CANNING'S,  and  to  whom 
the  latter  was  a  frequent  visitor.  A  clever  parodical  application 
of  this  couplet  was  made  by  O'CONNELL  to  LORD  STANLEY'S  sec- 
tion of  a  party  of  six,  who  wished  to  hold  the  balance  of  power, 


164  POETEY   OF 

One  in  each  corner  sits,  and  lolls  at  ease,  180 

With  folded  arms,  propt  back,  and  outstretched  knees  ; 
While   the   pressed  Bodkin,  punched   and   squeezed   to 

death, 
Sweats  in  the  midmost  place,  and  scolds,  and  pants  for 

breath.* 

(To  be  continued.) 

during  PEEL'S  short  administration  in  1835.  He  altered  it  to 
"The  Derby  Dilly,"  carrying  six  insides. — See  the  Greville 
Memoirs,  vol.  3,  pp.  236,  &c. — ED.] 

[*  Thus  sings  Dr.  Darwin  of  the  Loves  of  the  Plants  : 
"  Two  brother  swains,  of  Collins'  gentle  name, 
The  same  their  features,  and  their  forms  the  same, 
With  rival  love  for  fair  Collinia  sigh, 
Knit  the  dark  brow,  and  roll  the  unsteady  eye. 
With  sweet  concern  the  pitying  beauty  mourns, 
And  soothes  with  smiles  the  jealous  pair  by  turns. 
"Woo'd  with  long  care,  Curcuma,  cold  and  shy, 
Meets  her  fond  husband  with  averted  eye. 
Four  beardless  youths  the  obdurate  beauty  move 
With  soft  attentions  of  Platonic  love." — ED.] 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  165 


No.  XXV. 

April  30,  1798. 
BEISSOT'S  GHOST.* 

As  at  the  Shakespeare  Tavern  dining, 

O'er  the  well  replenished  board 
Patriotic  chiefs  reclining, 

Quick  and  large  libations  poured  ; 
While,  in  fancy,  great  and  glorious, 

"Midst  the  democratic  storm, 
Fox's  crew,  with  shout  victorious, 

Drank  to  Radical  Reform  ; 

Sudden,  up  the  staircase  sounding, 

Hideous  yells  and  shrieks  were  heard ; 
Then,  each  guest  with  fear  confounding, 

A  grim  train  of  Ghosts  appeared  : 
Each  a  head,  with  anguish  gasping, 

(Himself  a  trunk  deformed  with  gore), 
In  his  hand,  terrific,  clasping, 

Stalked  across  the  wine-stained  floor. 

On  them  gleamed  the  lamp's  blue  lustre, 
When  stern  BBISSOT'S  grizzly  shade 

His  sad  bands  was  seen  to  muster, 
And  his  bleeding  troops  arrayed. 

[*  BRISSOT  was  one  of  the  first  movers  in  the  outbreak  of  the 
French  Revolution,  and  with  twenty  other  Girondists  suffered 
death  under  the  guillotine,  October  30,  1793.  He  was  one  of 
the  most  virtuous  as  well  as  most  accomplished  litterateurs  of 
the  time. — ED.] 


166  POETRY    OF 

Through  the  drunken  crowd  he  hied  him, 
Where  the  chieftain  sate  enthroned, 

There,  his  shadowy  trunks  beside  him, 
Thus  in  threatening  accents  groaned : 

"  Heed,  oh  heed  our  fatal  story, 

(I  am  BEISSOT'S  injured  Ghost), 
You  who  hope  to  purchase  glory 

In  that  field  where  I  was  lost ! 
Though  dread  PITT'S  expected  ruin 

Now  your  soul  with  triumph  cheers, 
When  you  think  on  our  undoing, 

You  will  mix  your  hopes  with  fears. 

"  See  these  helpless,  headless  spectres, 

Wandering  through  the  midnight  gloom  : 
Mark  their  Jacobinic  lectures 

Echoing  from  the  silent  tomb  ; 
These,  thy  soul  with  terror  filling, 

Once  were  Patriots  fierce  and  bold  " —     . 
(Each  his  head,  with  gore  distilling, 

Shakes,  the  whilst  his  tale  is  told). 

"  Some  from  that  dread  engine's  carving 
In  vain  contrived  their  heads  to  save — 

See  BAEBAEOUX  and  PETION  *  starving 
In  the  Languedocian  cave  ! 

*  Such  was  the  end  of  these  worthies.  They  were  found 
starved  to  death  in  a  cave  in  Languedoc.  Vide  Barrere's  Rep. 

[CHARLES  BARBAROUX  was  one  of  the  most  distinguished  and 
energetic  of  the  Girondists.  As  he  opposed  the  party  of  Marat 
and  Robespierre,  he  was,  in  1793,  proscribed  as  a  Royalist  and 
an  enemy  of  the  Republic.  He  wandered  about  the  country, 
hiding  himself  as  he  best  could  for  thirteen  months,  when  he 
was  taken,  and  perished  by  the  guillotine,  June  25,  1794. — ED.] 

JEROME  PETION  DE  VILLENEUVE  was  a  prominent  member 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  167 

See,  in  a  higgler's*  hamper  buckled, 
How  LOUVET'S  soaring  spirit  lay ! 

How  virtuous  ROLAND, t  helpless  cuckold, 
Blew  what  brains  he  had  away.     . 

"  How  beneath  the  power  of  MAKAT, 

CONDOBCET,  blaspheming,  fell, 
Begged  some  laudanum  of  GABAT,J 

Drank ; — and  slept,—  to  wake  in  hell ! 

of  the  Jacobin  Club,  and  a  great  ally  of  Robespierre.  Being 
elected  MAIRE  DE  PARIS  in  Bailly's  stead,  he  encouraged  the 
demonstrations  of  the  lowest  classes,  and  the  arming  of  the 
populace.  He  then  joined  the  Girondists.  On  their  defeat  by 
the  army  of  the  Convention,  he  fled  in  July,  1793,  into  Bretagne. 
A  short  time  after  the  corpses  of  himself  and  Buzot  were  found 
in  a  corn-field  near  St.  Emilion,  partly  devoured  by  wolves. 
They  were  supposed  to  have  died  by  their  own  hands.  He  was 
extremely  virtuous  in  all  his  domestic  relations  ;  but  his  public 
career  shows  him  to  have  been  weak,  shallow,  ostentatious,  and 
vain. — ED.] 

*  See  LOUVET'S  R6cit  de  tne&  Perils. 

f  This  philosophic  coxcomb  is  the  idol  of  those  who  admire 
the  French  Revolution  up  to  a  certain  point. 

J  This  little  anecdote  is  not  generally  known. — It  is  strikingly 
pathetic. — GARAT  has  recorded  this  circumstance  in  a  very 
eloquent  sentence — "  0  toi,  qui  arretas  la  main  avec  laquelle  tu 
tracjais  le  progres  de  1'esprit  huinain,  pour  porter  sur  tes  levres 
le  breuvage  mortel,  d'autres  pensees  et  d'autres  sentimens  out 
incline'  ta  volonte  vers  le  tombeau,  dans  ta  derniere  de'libe'ra- 
tion. — (GARAT,  it  seems,  did  not  choose  to  poison  himself.) — Tu 
as  rendu  a  la  libert^  eiernelle  ton  ame  Rdpublicaine  par  ce 
poison  qui  avait  e*te  partagd  entre  nous  conime  le  pain  entre  des 
freres." 

"  Oh  you,  who  stayed  the  hand  with  which  you  were  tracing 
the  progress  of  the  human  mind,  to  carry  the  mortal  mixture 
to  your  lips — it  was  by  other  thoughts  and  other  sentiments 
that  your  judgment  was  at  length  determined  in  that  last  deli- 
berated act.  You  restored  your  republican  spirit  to  an  eternal 
freedom,  by  that  poison  which  we  had  shared  together,  like  a 
morsel  of  bread  between  two  brothers." 


168  POETEY   OF 

Oh  that,  with  worthier  souls  uniting, 
I  in  my  country's  cause  had  shone  ! 

Had  died  my  Sovereign's  battle  fighting, 
Or  nobly  propp'd  his  sinking  throne  ! — 

"  But  hold  ! — I  scent  the  gales  of  morning — 

Covent-Garden's  clock  strikes  One  ! 
Heed,  oh  heed  my  earnest  warning, 

Ere  England  is,  like  France,  undone ! 
To  St.  Stephen's  quick  repairing, 

Your  dissembled  mania  end  ; 
And,  your  errors  past  forswearing, 

Stand  at  length  your  Country's  Friend  ! " 

[The  preceding  ballad  is  parodied  from  the  one  by  Glover, 
entitled — 

ADMIRAL  HOSIER'S  GHOST. 

As  near  Porto-Bello  lying 

On  the  gently  swelling  flood, 
At  midnight  with  streamers  flying, 

Our  triumphant  navy  rode  : 
There  while  VERXOX  sat  all-glorious 

From  the  Spaniard's  late  defeatj 
And  his  crews,  with  shouts  victorious, 

Drank  success  to  England's  fleet : 

On  a  sudden,  shrilly  sounding, 

Hideous  yells  and  shrieks  were  heard, 
Then  each  heart  with  fear  confounding, 

A  sad  troop  of  ghosts  appeared : 
All  in  dreary  hammocks  shrouded, 

Which  for  winding-sheets  they  wore, 
And  with  looks  by  sorrow  clouded, 

Frowning  on  that  hostile  shore. 

On  them  gleam'd  the  moon's  wan  lustre, 

When  the  shade  of  HOSIER  brave 
His  pale  bands  was  seen  to  muster, 

Rising  from  their  wat'ry  grave  : 
O'er  the  glimmering  wave  he  hied  him, 

Where  the  Burford  rear'd  her  sail, 
With  three  thousand  ghosts  beside  him, 

And  in  groans  did  VERNON  hail. 

Heed,  O  heed,  our  fatal  story, 

I  am  HOSIER'S  injured  ghost, 
You  who  now  have  purchas'd  glory, 

At  this  place  where  I  was  lost ; 
Though  in  Porto-Bello's  ruin 

You  now  triumph  free  from  fears, 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  169 


When  you  think  on  our  undoing, 
You  will  mix  your  joy  with  tears. 

See  these  mournful  spectres  sweeping 

Ghastly  o'er  this  hated  wave, 
Whose  wan  cheeks  are  stain'd  with  weeping, 

These  were  English  Captains  brave. 
Mark  those  numbers  pale  and  horrid, 

Those  were  once  my  sailors  bold, 
See  each  hangs  his  drooping  forehead, 

While  his  dismal  tale  is  told. 

I  by_  twenty  sail  attended 

Did  this  Spanish  town  affright, 
Nothing  then  its  wealth  defended 

But  my  orders  not  to  fight. 
O  !  that  in  this  rolling  ocean 

I  had  cast  them  with  disdain, 
And  obey'd  my  heart's  warm  motion 

To  have  quell'd  the  pride  of  Spain. 

For  resistance  I  could  fear  none, 

But  with  twenty  ships  had  done 
What  thou,  brave  and  happy  VERXOX, 

Hast  achiev'd  with  six  alone. 
Then  the  Bastimentos  never 

Had  our  foul  dishonour  seen, 
Nor  the  sea  the  sad  receiver 

Of  this  gallant  train  had  been. 

Thus,  like  thee,  proud  Spain  dismaying, 

And  her  galleons  leading  home, 
Though  condemned  for  disobeying, 

I  had  met  a  traitor's  doom : 
To  have  fallen,  my  country  crying 

He  has  play'd  an  English  part, 
Had  been  better  far  than  dying 

Of  a  griev'd  and  broken  heart. 

Unrepining  at  thy  glory, 

Thy  successful  arms  we  hail ; 
But  remember  our  sad  story, 

And  let  HOSIER'S  wrongs  prevail. 
Sent  in  this  foul  clime  to  languish, 

Think  what  thousands  fell  in  vain, 
Wasted  with  disease  and  anguish, 

Not  in  glorious  battle  slain. 

Hence  with  all  my  train  attending 

From  their  oozy  tombs  below, 
Through  the  hoary  foam  ascending, 

Here  I  feed  my  constant  woe. 
Here  the  Bastimentos  viewing, 

We  recal  our  shameful  doom, 
And  our  plaintive  cries  renewing, 

Wander  through  the  midnight  gloom. 

O'er  these  waves  for  ever  mourning, 

Shall  we  roam  deprived  of  rest, 
If  to  Britain's  shores  returning, 

You  neglect  my  just  request ; 
After  this  proud  foe  subduing, 

When  your  patriot  friends  you  see, 
Think  on  Vengeance  for  my  ruin, 

And  for  England  sham'd  in  me.] 


170  POETRY   OF 


No.    XXVI. 

May  7,  1798. 

LOVES  OF  THE  TEIANGLES. 

THE  frequent  solicitations  which  we  have  received  for 
a  continuation  of  the  LOVES  OF  THE  TRIANGLES  have 
induced  us  to  lay  before  the  public  (with  Mr.  Higgins's 
permission)  the  concluding  lines  of  the  Canto.  The 
catastrophe  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gingham,  and  the  episode 
of  Hippona,  contained,  in  our  apprehension,  several  reflec- 
tions of  too  free  a  nature.  The  conspiracy  of  Parameter 
and  Abscissa  against  the  Ordinate  is  written  in  a  strain 
of  poetry  so  very  splendid  and  dazzling  as  not  to  suit  the 
more  tranquil  majesty  of  diction  which  our  readers 
admire  in  Mr.  Higgins.  We  have  therefore  begun  our 
extract  with  the  Loves  of  the  Giant  Isosceles,  and  the 
Picture  of  the  Asses-Bridge,  and  its  several  illustrations. 

CANTO  I. 

EXTRACT. 

'Twas  thine  alone,  0  youth  of  giant  frame, 
Isosceles  !  *  that  rebel  heart  to  tame  ! 
In  vain  coy  Mathesis  t  thy  presence  flies  : 
Still  turn  her  fond  hallucinating  %  eyes ; 

*  Isosceles — An  equi-crural  triangle — It  is  represented  as  a 
Giant,  because  Mr.  HIGGINS  says  he  has  observed  that  pro- 
cerity  is  much  promoted  by  the  equal  length  of  the  legs,  more 
especially  when  they  are  long  legs. 

t  Mathesis — The  doctrine  of  mathematics — Pope  calls  her 
mad  Mathesis. — Vide  Johnson's  Dictionary. 

I  Hallucinating — The  disorder  with  which  Mathesis  is  affected 
is  a  disease  of  increased  volition,  called  erotomania,  or  sentimental 
love.  It  is  the  fourth  species  of  the  second  genus  of  the  first 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  171 

Thrills  with  Galvanic  fires  *   each  tortuous  nerve, 
Throb  her  blue  veins,  and  dies  her  cold  reserve. 
— Yet  strives  the  fair,  till  in  the  giant's  breast 
She  sees  the  mutual  passion's  flame  confessed  : 
Where'er  he  moves,  she  sees  his  tall  limbs  trace 
Internal  Angles\  equal  at  the  base  ; 
Again  she  doubts  him  :  but  produced  at  will, 
She  sees  th'  external  Angles  equal  still. 

Say,  blest  Isosceles  !    what  favouring  power, 
Or  love,  or  chance,  at  night's  auspicious  hour, 
While  to  the  Asses-BridgeJ  entranced  you  strayed, 
Led  to  the  Asses-Bridge  the  enamoured  maid  ? — 

order  and  third  class  ;  in  consequence  of  which,  Mr.  Hackman 
shot  Miss  Reay  in  the  lobby  of  the  playhouse. — Vide  Zoonomia, 
vol.  ii.,  pp.  363,  365. 

*  Galvanic  fires — Dr.  Galvani  is  a  celebrated  philosopher  at 
Turin.  He  has  proved  that  the  electric  fluid  is  the  proximate 
cause  of  nervous  sensibility ;  and  Mr.  HIGGINS  is  of  opinion 
that  by  means  of  this  discovery,  the  sphere  of  our  disagreeable 
sensations  may  be,  in  future,  considerably  enlarged.  "  Since 
dead  frogs  (says  he)  are  awakened  by  this  fluid  to  such  a  degree 
of  posthumous  sensibility  as  to  jump  out  of  the  glass  in  which 
they  are  placed,  why  not  men,  who  are  sometimes  so  much  more 
sensible  when  alive  ?  And  if  so,  why  not  employ  this  new 
stimulus  to  deter  mankind  from  dying  (which  they  so  perti- 
naciously continue  to  do)  of  various  old-fashioned  diseases,  not- 
withstanding all  the  brilliant  discoveries  of  modern  philosophy, 
and  the  example  of  Count  Cagliostro  ? 

t  Internal  Angles,  <tc. — This  is  an  exact  versification  of 
Euclid's  fifth  theorem. — Vide  Euclid  in  loco. 

|  Asses-Bridge — Pons  Asinorum — The  name  usually  given  to 
the  before-mentioned  theorem — though,  as  Mr.  Higgins  thinks, 
absurdly.  He  says,  that  having  frequently  watched  companies 
of  asses  during  their  passage  of  a  bridge,  he  never  discovered  in 
them  any  symptoms  of  geometrical  instinct  upon  the  occasion. 
But  he  thinks  that  with  Spanish  asses,  which  are  much  larger 
(vide  Townsend's  Travels  through  Spain),  the  case  may  possibly  be 
different. 


172  POETBY   OP 

The  Asses-Bridge,  for  ages  doomed  to  hear 
The  deafening  surge  assault  his  wooden  ear, 
With  joy  repeats  sweet  sounds  of  mutual  bliss, 
The  soft  susurrant  sigh,  and  gently-murmuring  kiss. 

So  thy  dark  arches,  London  Bridge,  bestride 
Indignant  Thames,  and  part  his  angry  tide, 
There  oft — returning  from  those  green  retreats, 
Where  fair  Vauxhallia  decks  her  sylvan  seats ; — 
Where  each  spruce  nymph,  from  city  compters  free, 
Sips  the  froth'd  syllabub,  or  fragrant  tea ; 
While  with  sliced  ham,  scraped    beef,  and  burnt  cham- 
pagne, 

Her  'prentice  lover  soothes  his  amorous  pain ; — 
There  oft,  in  well-trimmed  wherry,  glide  along 
Smart  beaux  and  giggling  belles,  a  glittering  throng : 
Smells  the  tarr'd  rope — with  undulation  fine 
Flaps  the  loose  sail — the  silken  awnings  shine ; 
"  Shoot  we  the  bridge  !''  the  venturous  boatmen  cry ; 
"  Shoot  we  the  bridge  !"  the  exulting  fare*  reply. 
— Down  the  steep  fall  the  headlong  waters  go, 
Curls  the  white  foam,  the  breakers  roar  below. 
The  veering  helm  the  dexterous  steersman  stops, 
Shifts  the  thin  oar,  the  fluttering  canvas  drops ; 
Then  with  closed  eyes,  clenched  hands,  and  quick-drawn 

breath, 

Darts  at  the  central  arch,  nor  heeds  the  gulf  beneath. 
Full  'gainst  the  pier  the  unsteady  timbers  knock, 
The  loose  planks,  starting,  own  the  impetuous  shock ; 

*  Fare  -A  person,  or  a  number  of  persons,  conveyed  in  a 
hired  vehicle  by  land  or  water. 


THE   ANTI- JACOBIN.  173 

The  shifted  oar,  dropp'd  sail,  and  steadied  helm, 

With  angry  surge  the  closing  waters  whelm — 

Laughs  the  glad  Thames,  and  clasps  each  fair  one's 

charms, 

That  screams  and  scrambles  in  his  oozy  arms. 
Drench'd  each  smart  garb,  and  clogged  each  straggling 

limb, 

Far  o'er  the  stream  the  Cockneys  sink  or  swim ; 
While  each  badged  boatman,*  clinging  to  his  oar, 
Bounds  o'er  the  buoyant  wave,  and  climbs  the  applauding 

shore. 

So,  towering  Alp  !  from  thy  majestic  ridge  f 
Young  Freedom  gazed  on  Lodi's  blood-stained  Bridge ; 
Saw,  in  thick  throngs,  conflicting  armies  rush, 
Eanks  close  on  ranks,  and  squadrons  squadrons  crush ; 
Burst  in  bright  radiance  through  the  battle's  storm, 
Waved  her  broad  hands,  displayed  her  awful  form  ; 
Bade  at  her  feet  regenerate  nations  bow, 
And  twined  the  wreath  round  BUONAPARTE'S  brow. 
Quick  with  new  lights,  fresh  hopes,  and  altered  zeal, 
The  slaves  of  despots  dropp'd  the  blunted  steel : 
Exulting  Victory  owned  her  favourite  child, 
And  freed  Liguria  clapp'd  her  hands,  and  smiled. 

*  Badped  boatman — Boatmen  sometimes  wear  a  badge,  to 
distinguish  them,  especially  those  who  belong  to  the  Water- 
men's Company. 

t  Alp,  or  Alps — A  ridge  of  mountains  which  separate  the 
North  of  Italy  from  the  South  of  Germany.  They  are  evidently 
primeval  and  volcanic,  consisting  of  granite,  toadstone,  and 
basalt,  and  several  other  substances,  containing  animal  and 
vegetable  recrements,  and  affording  numberless  undoubted 
proofs  of  the  infinite  antiquity  of  the  earth,  and  of  the  conse- 
quent falsehood  of  the  Mosaic  chronology. 


174  POETBY    OF 

Nor  long  the  time  ere  Britain's  shores  shall  greet 
The  warrior-sage,  with  gratulation  sweet : 
Eager  to  grasp  the  wreath  of  naval  fame, 
The  GEEAT  EEPUBLIC  plans  the  Floating  Frame  ! 
O'er  the  huge  plane  gigantic  Terror  stalks, 
And  counts  with  joy  the  close-compacted  balks  : 
Of  young-eyed  Massacres  the  Cherub  crew, 
Bound  their  grim  chief  the  mimic  task  pursue ; 
Turn  the  stiff  screw,*  apply  the  strengthening  clamp, 
Drive  the  long  bolt,  or  fix  the  stubborn  cramp, 
Lash  the  reluctant  beam,  the  cable  splice, 
Join  the  firm  dove-tail  with  adjustment  nice, 
Through  yawning  fissures  urge  the  willing  wedge, 
Or  give  the  smoothing  adze  a  sharper  edge. 
Or  group'd  in  fairy  bands,  with  playful  care, 
The  unconscious  bullet  to  the  furnace  bear ; — 
Or  gaily  tittering,  tip  the  match  with  fire, 
Prime  the  big  mortar,  bid  the  shell  aspire ; 
Applaud,  with  tiny  hands,  and  laughing  eyes, 
And  watch  the  bright  destruction  as  it  flies. 

Now  the  fierce  forges  gleam  with  angry  glare — 
The  windmill  f  waves  his  woven  wings  in  air ; 

*  Turn  the  stiff  screw,  &c. — The  harmony  and  imagery  of  these 
lines  are  imperfectly  imitated  from  the  following  exquisite 
passage  in  the  Economy  of  Vegetation : 

"  Gnomes,  as  you  now  dissect,  with  hammers  fine, 
The  granite  rock,  the  noduled  flint  calcine ; 
Grind  with  strong  arm  the  circling  Chertz  betwixt, 
Your  pure  Ka — o — lins  and  Pe — tunt— ses  mixt. 

Canto  ii.  line  297. 

[f  The  windmill,  &c. — This  line  affords  a  striking  instance  of  the 
sound  conveying  an  echo  to  the  sense.  I  would  defy  the  most 
unfeeling  reader  to  repeat  it  over  without  accompanying  it  by 
some  corresponding  gesture  imitative  of  the  action  described. — 
EDITOR.] 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  175 

Swells  the  proud  sail,  the  exulting  streamers  fly, 

Their  nimble  fins  unnmnber'd  paddles  ply  : 

Ye  soft  airs  breathe,  ye  gentle  billows  waft, 

And,  fraught  with  Freedom,  bear  the  expected  Eaft ! 

Perch'd  on  her  back,  behold  the  Patriot  train, 

Mum,  ASHLEY,  BAKLOW,  TONE,  O'CONNOR,  PAINE  ! 

While  TANDY'S  hand  directs  the  blood-empurpled  rein. 

Ye  Imps  of  Murder !  guard  her  angel  form, 
Check  the  rude  surge,  and  chase  the  hovering  storm ; 
Shield  from  contusive  rocks  her  timber  limbs, 
And  guide  the  sweet  Enthusiast*  as  she  swims ! 

And  now,  with  web-foot  oars,  she  gains  the  land, 
And  foreign  footsteps  press  the  yielding  sand  : 
The  Communes  spread,  the  gay  Departments  smile, 
Fair  Freedom's  Plant  o'ershades  the  laughing  isle  : 
Fired  with  new  hopes,  the  exulting  peasant  sees 
The  Gallic  streamer  woo  the  British  breeze ;  f 
While,  pleased  to  watch  its  undulating  charms, 
The  smiling  infantj  spreads  his  little  arms. 

*  Sweet  Enthusiast,  &c. — A  term  usually  applied  in  allegoric 
or  technical  poetry  to  any  person  or  object  to  which  no  other 
qualifications  can  be  assigned. — Chambers's  Dictionary. 

[f  ANNE  PLUMPTRE,  who  made  herself  known  as  one  of  the 
first  introducers  of  German  plays,  said:  "People  are  talking 
about  an  Invasion.  I  am  not  afraid  of  an  Invasion  ;  I  believe  tlie 
country  would  be  all  the  happier  if  BUONAPARTE  were  to  effect  a 
landing  and  overturn  the  Government.  He  would  destroy  the  Church 
and  the  Aristocracy,  and  his  government  would  be  better  than  the 
one  we  have".  Crabb  Robinson's  Diary  (1810),  i.  298.— ED.] 

I  Tlie  smiling  infant — Infancy  is   particularly  interested  in 
the  diffusion  of  the  new  principles.     See  the  "  Bloody  Buoy  ". 
See  also  the  following  description  and  prediction  : 
"  Here  Time's  huge  fingers  grasp  his  giant  mace, 
And  dash  proud  Superstition  from  her  base  ; 
Rend  her  strong  towers  and  gorgeous  fanes,  &c. 
****** 


176  POETRY   OF 

Ye  sylphs  of  DEATH  !  on  demon  pinions  flit 
Where  the  tall  Guillotine  is  raised  for  PITT  : 
To  the  poised  plank  tie  fast  the  monster's  back,* 
Close  the  nice  slider,  ope  the  expectant  sack  ; 
Then  twitch,  with  fairy  hands,  the  frolic  pin — 
Down  falls  the  impatient  axe  with  deafening  din ; 
The  liberated  head  rolls  off  below,  t 
And  simpering  Freedom  hails  the  happy  blow ! 

While  each  light  moment,  as  it  passes  by, 

With  feathery  foot  and  pleasure-twinkling  eye, 

Feeds  from  its  baby-hand  with  many  a  kiss 

The  callow-nestlings  of  domestic  bliss." — Botanic  Garden. 

*  The  monster's  back — Le  Monstre  Pitt,  1'ennemi  du  genre  hu- 
main.     See  Debates  of  the  legislators  of  the  Great  Nation,  passim. 

t  Atque  illud  prono  prseceps  agitur  decursus.— Catullus. 

[The  following  lines  of  Dr.  Darwin's,  in  Canto  iL,  gave  great 
offence  to  the  Government : — 

So,  borne  on  sounding  pinions  to  the  west, 
When  tyrant-power  had  built  his  eagle  nest ; 
While  from  his  eyry  shriek' d  the  farnish'd  brood, 
Clench'd  their  sharp  claws,  and  champ'd  their  beaks  for 

blood, 

Immortal  FRANKLIN  watch'd  the  callow  crew, 
And  stabb'd  the  struggling  vampires,  ere  they  flew. 
— The  patriot-flame  with  quick  contagion  ran, 
Hill  lighted  hill,  and  man  electris'd  man : 
Her  heroes  slain  awhile  Columbia  mourn' d, 
And  crown'd  with  laurels  Liberty  return'd. 

The  warrior,  Liberty,  with  bending  sails, 
Helm'd  his  bold  course  to  fair  Hibernia's  vales ; 
Firm  as  he  steps  along  the  shouting  lands, 
Lo !    Truth  and  Virtue  range  their  radiant  bands ; 
Sad  Superstition  wails  her  empire  torn, 
Art  plies  his  oar,  and  Commerce  pours  her  horn. 

Long  had  the  giant-form  on  Gallia's  plains 
Inglorious  slept,  unconscious  of  his  chains ; 
Bound  his  large  limbs  were  wound  a  thousand  strings 
By  the  weak  hands  of  confessors  and  kings ; 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  177 

O'er  his  closed  eyes  a  triple  veil  was  bound, 
And  steely  rivets  lock'd  him  to  the  ground; 
While  stern  Bastile  with  iron-cage  inthralls 
His  folded  limbs,  and  hems  in  marble  walls. — ED.] 

NOTES  TO  LOVES  OF  THE  TRIANGLES. 

[The  general  features  of  Dr.  Darwin's  extraordinary  poems,  the  "Loves  of  the 
Plants,"  and  the  "Economy  of  Vegetation"  which  are  so  admirably  ridiculed  in 
the  preceding  pages,  may  be  gathered  from  the  following  specimens  :— 

ARGUMENT. 

THE  Genius  of  the  place  invites  the  Goddess  of  Botany— She  descends— is  re- 
ceived by  Spring  and  the  Elements — Addresses  the  Nymphs  of  Fire — Love  created 
the  Universe— Chaos  explodes— All  the  Stars  revolve— Colours  of  the  Morning 
and  Evening  Skies— Exterior  Atmosphere  of  inflammable  Air— Fires  at  the 
Earth's  Centre— Animal  Incubation — Venus  visits  the  Cyclops — Phosphoric 
Lights  in  the  Evening — Bolognian  Stone — Ignis  fatuus — Eagle  armed  with 
Lightning — Discovery  of  Fire— Medusa — The  Chemical  Properties  of  Fire — 
Lady  in  Love— Gunpowder— Steam-engine — Labours  of  Hercules— Halo  round 
the  Heads  of  Saints— Fairy  rings — Death  of  Professor  Richman— Cupid  snatches 
the  thunderbolt  from  Jupiter— The  great  Ejjg  of  Night— Naiad  released— Frost 
assailed— Whale  attacked— Ice-Islands  navigated  into  the  Tropic  Seas— Rainy 
Ifonaoooa— Elijah  on  Mount  Carmel— Departure  of  the  Nymphs  of  Fire  like 
sparks  from  Artificial  Fireworks,  Ac. 

"  Nymphs!  you  disjoin,  unite,  condense,  expand, 
And  give  new  wonders  to  the  Chemist's  hand  ; 
On  tepid  clouds  of  rising  steam  aspire, 
Or  fix  in  sulphur  all  its  solid  fire  ; 
With  boundless  spring  elastic  airs  unfold, 
Or  fill  the  fine  vacuities  of  gold  ; 
With  sudden  flash  vitrescent  sparks  reveal, 
By  fierce  collision  from  the  flint  and  steel ; 
Or  mark  with  shining  letters  Kunkel's  name 
In  the  pale  phosphor's  self -consuming  flame. 
So  the  chaste  heart  of  some  enchanted  maid 
Shines  with  insidious  light,  by  love  betray'd  ; 
Round  her  pale  bosom  plays  the  young  desire, 
And  slow  she  wastes  by  self-consuming  fire." 

These  poems,  produced  in  that  dreary  time  for  English  poetry  which  elapsed 
between  the  disappearance  of  Cowper  and  Burns  and  the  advent  of  Scott  and 
Byron,  had,  in  spite  of  their  glaring  absurdities,  no  lack  of  warm  admirers. 
Miss  Seward,  in  her  Life  of  Dr.  Dancin,  published  in  1804,  sets  no  limits  to  her 
admiration  :— "  We  are  presented,"  she  says,  "  with  an  highly  imaginative  and 
splendidly  descriptive  poem,  whose  successive  pictures  alternately  possess  the 
sublimity  of  Michael  Angelo,  the  correctness  and  elegance  of  Raphael,  with  the 
glow  of  Titian  ;  whose  landscapes  have,  at  times,  the  strength  of  Salvator,  and 
at  others  the  softness  of  Claude ;  whose  numbers  are  of  stately  grace,  and  artful 
harmony  ;  while  its  allusions  to  ancient  and  modern  history  and  fable,  and  its 
interspersion  of  recent  and  extraordinary  anecdotes,  render  it  extremely  enter- 
taining. *  *  Each  part  is  enriched  by  a  number  of  philosophical  notes. 
They  state  a  great  variety  of  theories  and  experiments  in  Botany,  Chemistry, 
Electricity,  Mechanics,  and  in  the  various  species  of  Air,  salubrious,  noxious, 
and  deadly,"  &c.] 

THE  SCOTTISH  "POLITICAL  MARTYRS". 

[THOMAS  Mum,  the  younger,  of  Hunter's  Hill,  a  promising  young  advocate 
of  the  Scottish  Bar,  and  of  nigh  respectability,  was  tried  at  Edinburgh,  30th 
and  31st  of  August,  1793,  before  Lord  Justice  Clerk  (Braxfleld),  Lords  Hender- 

12 


178  POETRY    OF 

land,  Swinton,  Dunsinnan,  and  Abercromby,  for  Sedition.  The  weightiest 
charge  against  him  was  that  of  "  lending"  a  copy  of  Paine's  Right»  of  Man  to  a 
person  who  begged  a  reading  of  that  popular  boo'k.  He  was  found  guilty,  and 
sentenced  to  fourteen  years'  transportation.  On  the  17th  of  the  ensuing 
month,  the  Rev.  THOS.  FYSHE  PALMER,  a  Unitarian  Minister  of  Dundee,  and  an 
ex-fellow  of  Queen's  College,  Cambridge,  was  tried  at  Perth  for  publishing  a 
seditious  Address,  and  sentenced  to  seven  years'  transportation.  On  their 
arrival  at  Woolwich,  in  a  revenue  cutter,  they  were  put  on  board  separate 
hulks,  and  assisted  at  the  common  labour  on  the  banks  of  the  river.  Mum, 
soon  after  his  arrival  in  New  South  Wales,  effected  his  escape,  in  an  American 
vessel,  to  South  America,  whence  he  proceeded  to  Spain.  During  this  voyage, 
in  an  action  with  a  British  frigate,  he  received  a  wound  in  the  head,  from 
which  he  recovered ;  but  on  his  arrival  at  his  destination,  he  was  imprisoned 
by  the  Spanish  authorities,  until,  on  the  application  of  M.  de  Talleyrand  in  the 
name  of  the  then  government  of  France,  he  obtained  his  release.  He  then 
went  to  France,  and  died  at  Bourdeaux  [or  Chantilly]  in  1799 ;  aged  33. 
PALMER  served  out  his  seven  years,  but  died  on  the  homeward  voyage. 

Other  Trials  soon  followed.  At  the  close  of  December,  1793,  MR.  SKIRVIXG, 
MR.  GERRALD,  and  MR.  MARGAROT  were  tried  at  Edinburgh  on  similar  charges 
of  seditious  practices,  and  were  all  sentenced  to  fourteen  years'  transportation. 
The  former  two  died  soon  after  reaching  New  South  Wales.  MAURICE  MAR- 
GAROT, who  appears  to  have  conducted  himself  throughout  with  the  most 
abandoned  and  shameless  profligacy,  was  the  only  one  of  these  convicts — his 
fourteen  years  over — who  ever  set  foot  again  in  Britain. 

GERRALU  was  a  man  of  very  superior  ability,  and  a  favourite  pupil  of  Dr. 
Parr's,  as  is  mentioned  by  De  Quincey  in  his  famous  essay  on  that  noted  Whig 
pedagogue. 

On  the  Scottish  "political  martyrs"  Lord  Cockburn,  in  bis  posthumous 
Examination  of  the  Trials  for  Sedition  in  Scotland,  published  in  1888,  which  deals 
with  the  twenty-five  trials  of  the  above-named  five  and  of  thirty-two  others,  be- 
tween 1793  and  1849,  passes  his  deliberate  verdict,  that,  with  the  exception  of 
Muir,  not  one  of  them  was  guiltless.  But,  like  ordinary  criminals,  tbey  were 
entitled  to  a  fair  and  impartial  trial ;  and  their  trials  were,  one  and  all,  iniqui- 
tous. Of  the  six  judges  who  presided  in  the  first  fourteen  (1793-94),  five  were 
dull,  timid  nonentities ;  the  sixth,  Lord  Justice  Clerk  Braxfield,  was,  says 
Lord  Cockburn,  "a  profound  practical  lawyer,  and  a  powerful  man;  coarse 
and  illiterate  .  .  .  utterly  devoid  of  judicial  decorum,  and  though  pure  in  the 
administration  of  civil  justice,  when  he  was  exposed  to  no  temptation,  with  no 
other  conception  of  principle  in  any  political  case  except  that  the  upholding  of 
his  party  was  a  duty  attaching  to  his  position.  Over  the  five  weak  men  who  sat 
beside  him,  this  coarse  and  dexterous  ruffian  predominated  as  he  chose."  But 
Jedburgh — no,  nor  the  Bloody  Assize  itself — could  scarcely  match  one  scene  in 
Gerrald'_s  trial :— "  '  After  all,'  he  was  urging  in  his  defence,  'the  most  useful 
discoveries  in  philosophy,  the  most  important  changes  in  the  moral  history  of 
man,  have  been  innovations.  The  Revolution  was  an  innovation,  Christianity 
itself  was  an  innovation."  Instantly  upon  this,  the  following  interruption  took 
place:  — Lord  Braxfield:  'You  would  have  been  stopped  long  before  this,  if 
you  had  not  been  a  stranger.  All  that  you  have  been  saying  is  sedition.  And 
now,  my  Lords,  he  is  attacking  Christianity."  Lord  Henderland  :  '  I  allow  him 
all  the  benefit  of  his  defence.  But  ...  I  cannot  sit  here  as  a  judge  without 
saying  that  it  is  a  most  indecent  defence.  .  .  .'  The  juries  were  packed  as 
never,  surely,  before,  or  afterwards." 

With  such  judges,  such  juries,  and,  at  least,  in  two  cases,  false  witnesses,  it 
might  seem  easy  to  anticipate  the  result ;  but  the  result  transcends  anticipation. 
In  almost  every  case  a  light  sentence  would  have  amply  met  the  requirements 
of  justice  ;  but  the  judges  all  shared  Lord  Swinton's  opinion  that  "  it  is  impos- 
sible to  punish  Sedition  adequately,  now  that  torture  has  been  abolished  ".  So 
they  strove  to  supply  the  deficiency  by  Transportation,  a  punishment  unwar- 
ranted by  precedent. 

With  respect  to  Margaret's  trial  at  Edinburgh,  the  following  is  a  vivid 
memory  of  Lord  Cockburn's  boyhood  : — 

"  MARGAROT  came  from  the  Black  Bull  [in  Leith  Street]  to  be  tried,  attended 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  179 

by  a  procession  of  the  populace  and  his  Convention  friends,  with  banners  and 
what  was  called  a  tree  of  liberty.  This  tree  was  in  the  shape  of  the  letter  M, 
about  twenty  feet  high  and  ten  wide.  The  honour  of  bearing  it  up  by  carrying 
the  two  upright  poles  was  assigned  to  two  eminent  Conventionalists,  and  the 
little  culprit  walked  beneath  the  circular  placard  in  the  centre,  which  proclaimed 
liberty  and  equality,  &c.  I  was  looking  out  of  a  window  in  the  old  Post-Office, 
which  was  then  the  northmost  house  on  the  west  side  of  the  North  Bridge. 
I  think  I  see  the  scene  yet.  The  whole  North  Bridge,  from  the  Tron  Church  to 
the  Register  Office,  was  quite  empty  at  first ;  not  a  single  creature  venturing  on 
that  bit  of  sand,  over  which  the  waves  were  so  soon  to  break  from  both  ends. 
The  Post-Officeand  the  adjoining  houses  had  been  secretly  filled  with  constables, 
and  sailors  from  a  frigate  in  the  roads  (I  think  The  Hind,  Capt.  Cochrane),  all 
armed  with  sticks  and  batons.  No  soldier  appeared,  it  being  determined  that 
this  civic  insurrection  should  be  put  down  by  the  civil  force,  unaided,  at  least, 
by  scarlet.  As  soon  as  the  tree,  which  led  the  van,  emerged  from  Leith  Street, 
and  appeared  at  the  north  end  of  the  bridge,  Provost  Elder  and  the  Magistrates 
issued  from  some  place  they  had  retired  to  (I  believe  the  Tron  Church),  and  ap- 
peared, all  robed,  at  the  south  end.  The  day  was  good.  There  was  still  not 
one  person— I  doubt  if  there  was  even  a  dog— on  any  part  of  the  space,  being  the 
whole  length  of  the  bridge,  between  the  two  parties.  But  the  rear  of 
each  was  crammed  with  people,  who  filled  up  every  inch  as  those  in  front 
moved  on.  The  Magistrates  were  in  a  line  across  the  street,  with  the  Provost 
in  the  centre,  the  city  officers  behind  this  line,  and  probably  a  hundred  loyal 
gentlemen  in  the  rear  of  the  officers.  The  two  parties  advanced  steadily 
towards  each  other,  and  in  perfect  silence,  till  they  met  just  about  the  Post- 
Office.  The  Provost  stepped  forward  about  a  pace,  so  that  he  almost  touched 
the  front  line  of  the  rebels,  when,  advancing  his  cane,  he  commanded  them  to 
retire.  This  order  probably  would  not  have  been  obeyed  ;  but,  at  any  rate,  it 
could  not  have  been  obeyed  speedily,  from  the  crowd  behind.  However,  all 
this  was  immaterial ;  for,  without  waiting  one  instant  to  see  whether  they 
meant  to  retire  or  not,  the  houses  vomited  forth  their  bludgeoned  contents,  and 
in  almost  t^o  minutes  the  tree  was  demolished  and  thrown  over  the  bridge,  the 
street  covered  with  the  knocked  down,  the  accused  dragged  to  the  bar,  and  the 
insurrection  was  over." 

On  February  20th,  1837,  a  meeting  took  place  at  the  Crown  and  Anchor 
Tavern,  Strand,  for  commencing  a  subscription  to  erect  monuments  in  London 
and  Edinburgh  to  the  memory  of  the  above  five  Reformers.  Joseph  Hume, 
M.P.  was  in  the  chair  ;  Colonel  Perronet  Thompson,  Mr.  Dan.  Whittle  Harvey, 
and  fifteen  other  members  of  Parliament  were  present.  A  lofty  obelisk  was 
erected  on  the  Calton  Hill  to  the  memory  of  the  "Scottish  Martyrs,"  but 
London  did  not  sympathize  with  the  movement.— ED.] 


JOEL  BARLOW. 

[JOEL  BARLOW,  born  in  1756  in  Connecticut,  was  educated  as  a  Presbyterian 
minister,  but  afterwards  turned  Deist.  Before  this  change  he  translated  the 
Psalms  into  metre,  and  his  version  is  still  used  in  the  churches  of  New  England. 
He  now  adopted  the  Law,  and  engaged  in  periodicals — one,  The  Anarchitt, 
which  was  political  in  its  character,  and  exercised  great  influence.  In  1788, 
after  visiting  England,  he  went  to  Paris,  where  he  joined  the  Girondists.  In 
1791,  he  returned  to  England,  where  he  published  the  first  part  of  his  Adeice  to 
the  Prh-ilegid  Order*,  in  which  he  assails  the  whole  system  of  Government 
pursued  in  monarchical  Europe,  the  Church  establishments,  the  standing 
armies,  the  judicial  organisations,  and  the  financial  systems  which  belong  to 
the  old  governments.  In  February,  1792,  he  published  a  political  poem,  which 
he  entitled  The  Consjnntcy  of  Kings;  also  a  Letter  to  the  Convention  advising 
the  separation  of  Church  and  State.  So  great  did  his  reputation  become  that 
he  was  fixed  on  by  the  London  Constitutional  Society  to  present  their  Address 
to  the  Convention.  After  various  political  transactions  in  tne  interest  of  France, 
and  also  in  commercial  speculations  which  made  him  a  rich  man,  he  left  Paris 
in  1805,  living  on  his  estate  in  America  till  1811,  when  he  was  sent  as  Minister 


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POETRY  OF 


Plenipotentiary  to  Paris.  But  Napoleon  being  on  his  Russian  Expedition,  he 
followed  him  to  Wilna ;  but  the  fatiguing  journey  proved  fatal :  he  died  26th 
December,  1812.  He  wrote  at  an  early  age  a  poem,  The  Vision  of  Columbus,  which 
acquired  great  popularity,  and  which  he  afterwards  enlarged  as  The  Columbiad. 
Among  other  works  he  published  (in  1796)  a  mock-heroic  poem,  Hasty  Pudding, 
which  is  generally  considered  his  best  work. — ED.] 

THEOBALD  WOLFE  TONE. 

[THEOBALD  WOLFE  TONE,  the  founder  of  the  ASSOCIATION  OF  UNITED  IRISH- 
MEN, was  born  in  Dublin  in  1764,  and,  after  passing  through  Trinity  College, 
came  to  London  to  prosecute  his  legal  studies,  which  he  soon  forsook  for 
politics,  being  induced  thereto  by  the  indignation  excited  in  his  breast  by  the 
persecution  of  the  Irish  Catholics,  whose  cause,  although  himself  a  Protestant, 
he  warmly  advocated.  With  the  view  of  getting  their  grievances  redressed,  he 
founded  the  society  of  UNITED  IRISHMEN,  which  gave  great  alarm  to  the  English 
Government.  His  liberty  being  menaced,  he  went  to  America,  and  thence  to 
France,  where  he  arranged  with  Gen.  Hoche  the  expeditions  to  Bantry  Bay  and 
the  Texel.  Being  appointed  Adjutant-General,  he  served  in  several  of  the 
French  armies,  and  lastly  in  Gen.  Hardi's  expedition  to  Ireland  in  October, 
1798.  The  vessel  he  was  aboard  of  was  captured  by  the  English,  and  he  was 
conveyed  to  Dublin,  tried  by  a  Court-Martial,  and  sentenced  to  be  hanged. 
He  anticipated  his  execution,  however,  by  committing  suicide  in  prison,  19th 
November,  1798.— ED.] 

ARTHUR  O'CONNOR. 

[On  the  21st  and  22nd  May,  1798,  ARTHUR  O'CONNOR  (proprietor  of  a  Dublin 
newspaper,  The  Press),  JOHN  BINNS  (an  active  member  of  the  London  Corre- 
sponding Society),  JOHN  ALLEN,  JEREMIAH  LEAKY,  and  JAS.  O'COIGLY,  Mas  Jas. 
(Juigley,  alias  Jas.  John  Fivey  (a  Priest),  were  tried  at  Maidstone  for  High 
Treason.  ROBERT  FERGUSSON  was  counsel  for  Allen.  O'COIGLY  only  was  found 
Guilty,  and  was  executed  7th  June,  on  Pennenden  Heath.  After  being  sus- 
pended for  ten  minutes,  he  was  cut  down  and  his  head  severed  from  his  body  : 
the  disgusting  remainder  of  his  sentence  was  remitted.  He  met  his  death  with 
great  fortitude,  and  denying  to  the  last  the  charge  of  treasonable  correspon- 
dence abroad.  In  the  State  Trials,  vols.  26  and  27,  are  included  the  Life  of  the 
prisoner ;  Observations  on  his  Trial ;  Address  to  the  People  of  Ireland ;  and 
Letters,  all  written  by  himself  during  his  confinement  in  Maidstone  Gaol.  His 
real  name,  he  says,  was  the  Rev.  Jas.  Coigly,  and  his  age  36.  "  Can  you 
imagine  a  man  more  treacherous  and  profligate  than  O'COIGLY  ?"  said  Sir  James 
Mackintosh  to  DR.  PARR.  "  Yes,  Sir,  he  might  have  been  worse :  he  was  a 
parson— he  might  have  been  a  lawyer  ;  he  was  a  traitor— he  might  have  been 
an  apostate  ;  he  was  an  Irishman— he  might  have  been  a  Scotchman."  When 
it  is  recollected  that  Mackintosh  was  a  Scotchman  and  a  lawyer,  and  that  he 
had  written  in  defence  of  the  French  Revolution  against  Burke,  these  observa- 
tions of  Dr.  Parr  were  both  insolent  and  uncalled  for. 

A  Portrait  of  "  Arthur  O'Connor,  late  Member  in  the  Irish  Parliament  for 
Borough  of  Philipstown,  painted  by  J.  Dowling,  engraved  by  W.  Ward,"  was 
published  in  London,  18th  April,  1798.  Another  Portrait  in  military  uniform  is 
to  be  found  in  Barrington's  Memoirs  of  the  Union.  He  figures  also  in  several 
of  GlLLRAY'S  Caricatures. 

In  the  Birmingham  Daily  Post  of  April  2,  1888,  it  is  stated  that  THE  HON.  R. 
E.  O'CONNOR,  M.A.,  barrister-at-law,  the  latest  addition  to  the  Legislative 
Council  of  New  South  Wales,  is  a  grandson  of  ARTHUR  O'CONNOR,  one  of  the 
leaders  of  the  United  Irishmen,  who  died  a  General  in  the  service  of  France. 

When  O'CONNOR  was  acquitted  by  the  Jury,  on  the  above-named  occasion, 
but  before  the  Judge  had  given  orders  for  his  release,  a  strange  scene  occurred 
in  court,  an  attempt  being  made,  as  it  was  alleged,  by  SACKVILLE,  EARL  OF 
THANET,  ROBERT  FERGUSSON  (in  after  years  known  as  CUTLAR  FERGUSSON, 
Judge-Advocate-General),  and  others  to  facilitate  his  escape  in  order  to  avoid 
further  charges  about  to  be  preferred  against  him,  Binns  also  being  implicated 
for  this  exploit,  which  was  unsuccessful,  but  attended  with  violence.  These 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  181 

confederates  were  tried  at  the  Bar  of  the  Court  of  King's  Bench,  25th 
April,  1799.  The  Counsel  for  the  Crown  were  Sir  John  Scott  [Lord  Kldon], 
Law  [Lord  Ellenborough],  Sir  W.  Garrow,  Sir  C.  Abbot,  &c.,  while  the 
defendants  had  the  powerful  advocacy  of  Krskiiie  and  others.  His 
Lordship  and  Mr.  Fergussou  were  found  guilty  after  a  long  and  ingenious 
defence  oy  the  latter,  which  presaged  his  future  eminence  as  a  Counsel.  LORD 
THANET  was  ordered  to  pay  a  flue  of  £1000 ;  to  be  imprisoned  in  the  Tower  for  a 
year  ;  and  to  give  security  for  good  behaviour  for  seven  years  on  the  expiration 
of  the  sentence  ;  himself  in  £10,000,  and  two  sureties  in  £5000  each.  FERGUS- 
MIS  was  ordered  to  pay  a  tine  of  £100 ;  to  be  imprisoned  in  the  King's  Bench 
prison  for  one  year ;  to  give  security  for  good  behaviour  for  seven  years  from 
the  expiration  of  the  sentence  ;  himself  in  £5iO,  and  two  sureties  in  £250  each. 
—See  State  Trial*,  vols.  26  and  27.— ED.] 

JAMES  NAPPER  TANDY. 

["A  person  who  afterwards  made  a  considerable  figure  in  the  local  affairs 
of  Ireland  raised  himself  about  this  time  into  considerable  notoriety  by  his 
patriotic  exertions.  This  was  Mr.  JAMES  NAPPER  TANDY,  a  gentleman  in 
the  middle  station  of  life,  without  talent  or  natural  influence,  had  become  a 
warm  advocate  in  the  corporation  of  Dublin;  he  debated  zealously  in  public, 
he  argued  strenuously  in  private,  and  persevered  in  both  with  indefatigable 
ardour.  His  person  was  ungracious — his  language  neither  eloquent  nor 
argumentative— his  address  neither  graceful  nor  impressive— but  he  was 
sincere  and  persevering- and  though  in  many  instances  erroneous  and  violent, 
he  was  considered  to  be  honest.  His  private  character  furnished  no  ground  to 
doubt  the  integrity  of  his  public  one — and,  like  many  of  those  persons  who 
occasionally  spring  up  in  revolutionary  periods,  he  acquired  celebrity  without 
being  able  to  account  for  it,  and  possessed  influence  without  rank  or  capacity. 
In  1796,  Mr.  Tandy  lost  all  his  popularity,  and  nearly  his  life,  by  his  apparent 
want  of  courage  in  an  affair  between  him  and  Mr.  Toler,  then  Solicitor-General, 
afterwards  Lord  Norbury,  and  Chief  Justice  of  the  Common  Pleas.  Mr.  Tandy 
having  signified  to  Mr.  Toler  his  desire  to  tight  him,  the  Chief  Justice  readily 
accepted  the  offer.  Both  parties  manoeuvred  very  skilfully  ;  but  Mr.  Tandy 
delaying  his  ultimatum  too  long  for  the  impatience  of  the  Solicitor-General,  he 
brought  him  before  the  House  of  Commons  for  a  breach  of  privilege,  and  pro- 
secuted him  for  sedition.  Mr.  Tandy  escaped  to  the  Continent,  entered  the 
French  Service,  invaded  Ireland,  was,  with  his  confederates,  arrested  by  the 
British  Envoy  at  Hamburg,  24  Nov.,  1798,  contrary  to  the  law  of  nations :  the 
Minister  of  France  claimed  them  as  French  citizens,  and  the  Senate,  un- 
willing to  offend  either  power,  came  to  no  decision  on  the  subject.  Tandy  was 
thereupon  taken  to  Ireland  and  condemned  to  be  hanged — was  pardoned  by 
Lord  Cornwallis,  and  sent  back  to  France,  where  he  died  a  French  General." 
— Barrington's  Meinoirs  of  the  Union,  vol.  1,  where  is  a  portrait  of  Tandy.— ED.] 


182  POETKY    OF 


No.   XXVII. 

May  14,  1798. 

THE  gallant  defence  of  the  ISLES  OF  ST.  MAKCOU  would 
justify  a  more  serious  celebration  than  is  attempted  in 
the  following  poem ;  and  the  modest  and  unassuming 
manner  in  which  LIEUTENANT  PRICE  gives  the  account 
of  services  so  highly  meritorious,  adds  to  the  hope  which 
we  entertain  that  he  will  meet  a  more  solid  reward  than 
any  verse  of  ours  or  of  our  correspondent's  could  bestow. 
CITIZEN  MUSKEIN,  if  he  understands  Horace,  and  can 
read  English,  will  be  amply  rewarded  for  the  victory  of 
which  he  has,  no  doubt,  by  this  time,  made  a  pompous 
report  to  the  Directory,  by  the  perusal  of  the  14th  Ode 
of  the  1st  Book,  for  which  we  have  to  return  our  thanks 
to  a  classical  correspondent. 

A  CONSOLATOEY  ADDEESS  TO  HIS  GUNBOATS. 

BY    CITIZEN    MUSKEIN. 

0  navis !  referent  in  mare  te  novi  fluctus. 

0  GENTLE  GUN-BOATS,  w7hom  the  Seine 
Discharged  from  Havre  to  the  main  ; 
Now  leaky,  creaking,  blood-bespattered, 
With  rudders  broken,  canvas  shattered — 
0  tempt  the  treacherous  sea  no  more, 
But  gallantly  regain  the  shore. 

Scarce  could  our  guardian  goddess,  Eeason, 
Ensure  your  timbers  through  the  season. 
Though  built  of  wood  from  famed  Marseilles, 
Well-manned  from  galleys,  and  from  jails, 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  183 

Though  with  LEPAUX'S  and  EEWBELL'S  aid, 
By  PLEVILLE'S  *  skill  your  keel  was  laid ; 
Though  lovely  STAEL,  and  lovelier  STONE,* 
Have  worked  their  fingers  to  the  bone, 
And  cut  their  petticoats  to  rags 
To  make  your  bright  three-coloured  flags  ; 
Yet  sacrilegious  grape  and  ball 
Deform  the  works  of  STONE  and  STAEL, 
And  trembling,  without  food  or  breeches, 
Our  sailors  curse  the  painted .t 

Children  of  Muskein's  anxious  care, 
Source  of  my  hope  and  my  despair, 
GUN-BOATS — unless  you  mean  hereafter 
To  furnish  food  for  British  laughter — 
Sweet  GUN-BOATS,  with  your  gallant  crew, 
Tempt  not  the  rocks  of  SAINT  MAECOU  ; 
Beware  the  Badger's  bloody  pennant, 
And  that  d d  invalid  LIEUTENANT  ! 

*  STOXE. — Better  known  by  the  name  of  WILLIAMS. 

t  We  decline  printing  this  rhyme  at  length,  from  obvious 
reasons  of  delicacy  ;  at  the  same  time  that  it  is  so  accurate  a 
translation  of  pictis  puppibus,  that  we  know  not  how  to  sup- 
press it,  without  doing  the  utmost  injustice  to  the  general 
spirit  of  the  poem. 

LYRICS  OF  HORACE.  ODE  XIV.,  BOOK  I. 

TRANSLATED  BY  ARCHDEACON  WRANGHAM. 

O  Ship,  fresh  billows  soon  again 
Shall  bear  thee  to  the  boisterous  main  ! 
Firm,  keep  the  port.     See,  see  thy  side, 
Without  a  single  oar  to  guide  ! 
Wounded  by  tempests  is  thy  mast  ; 
Thy  sail -yards  groan  beneath  the  blast ; 
Nor  can  thy  keel,  imcabled,  brave 
The  swelling  of  th*  imperious  wave. 


184  POETBY   OF 

Torn  are  thy  sails  !    nor  Gods  hast  thou, 
When  clanger  threats,  to  hear  thy  vow. 
Though  born  of  noblest  wood,  'twas  thine 
To  tower  a  vigorous  Pontic  pine  ; 
'Tis  vain  thy  race,  thy  name,  to  prize : 
Nought  on  his  painted  stern  relies 
The  trembling  seaman.     Storms  afar 
Thicken  to  mock  thy  strength  :    beware. 

Thou,  who  wast  late  my  anxious  fear, 
Thou  now  my  fondest,  tenderest  care  : 
O  shun,  dear  Ship,  those  tossing  seas 
Which  part  the  white-cliffd  Cyclades  ! 

[MUSKEIX  was  an  inhabitant  of  Antwerp,  whom  the  Directory  not  only 
appointed  to  superintend  the  construction  of  the  flat-bottomed  boats  for  the 
invasion  of  Great  Britain  (usually  called  by  the  French  sailors  "  bateaux  a  la 
Muskeiii "),  but  made  a  "  capitaine  de  vaisstau  ".  An  attack  was  ordered  to  be 
made  upon  the  two  small  islands  of  SAIXT  MAUCOUF  (each  not  more  than  200 
yards  in  length),  of  which,  in  July,  1795,  SIR  SIDNEY  SMITH,  with  the  Diamond 
frigate,  had  taken  unobstructed  possession,  and  which  were  considered  to  give 
to  the  English  great  facility  in  intercepting  between  the  ports  of  Havre  and 
Cherbourg.  The  islands  are  situated  off  the  river  Isigny,  on  the  coast  of  Nor- 
mandy, and  about  four  miles  distant  from  the  French  shore.  After  being 
garrisoned  with  about  500  seamen  and  marines,  including  a  great  proportion  of 
invalids,  these  small  islands  were  placed  under  the  command  of  LIEUT. 
CHARLES  PAPPS  PRICE,  of  The  Badger,  a  cruiser-converted  Dutch  hoy,  mounting 
four,  or  at  most  six,  guns. 

On  the  8th  April,  1798,  MUSKEIN,  with  33  flat-bottomed  boats,  with  a  body 
of  troops  on  board,  and  a  few  gun-brigs,  was  about  to  make  a  combined  attack 
on  the  two  islands,  but  was  driven  off  by  two  British  frigates,  THE  DIAMOND, 
C'apt.  Sir  R.  J.  Strachan,  and  THE  HYDRA,  Capt.  Sir  Francis  Laforey,  and  stood 
into  Caen  river.  While  there  for  three  weeks,  repairing  damages,  he  was  joined 
by  seven  heavy  gun-brigs,  and  about  40  flat-boats  and  armed  fishing  vessels, 
bringing  with  them  additional  troops. 

On  the  6th  May,  LIEUT.  PRICE  received  information  that  an  attack  was 
meditated  during  the  night.  By  10  p.m.,  owing  to  the  prevailing  calm,  the 
small  naval  force  on  the  station,  consisting  of  the  50-gnn  ship,  ADAMANT,  Capt. 
Wm.  Hotham,  24-gun  ship.  EURYDICE,  Capt.  John  Talijot,  and  18-gun  brig-sloop, 
ORESTES,  Capt.  W.  Hagyitt,  had  not  been  able  to  approach  nearer  to  the  islands 
than  six  miles — precisely  what  the  assailants  wanted.  The  attacking  force 
consisted  of  52-gun  brigs  and  flat-bottomed  boats,  having  on  board,  as  was  re- 
ported, about  6000  men.  At  day-break,  on  the  7th,  the  flotilla  was  seen  drawn 
up  in  a  line  opposite  to  the  south-west  front  of  the  western  redoubt ;  and 
instantly  was  opened,  upon  the  brigs  and  flats  composing  it,  a  fire  from  17 
pieces  of  cannon,  consisting  of  four  4,  two  6,  and  six  24  pounder  long  guns,  and 
three  24  and  two  32-pounder  carronades,  being  all  the  guns  that  would  bear. 
The  brigs  remained  at  a  distance  of  from  300  to  400  yards,  in  order  to  batter  the 
redoubt  with  their  heavy  long  guns,  while  the  boats,  with  great  resolution, 
rowed  up  until  within  musket-shot  of  the  battery.  But  the  guns  of  the  latter, 
loaded  with  round,  grape,  and  canister,  soon  poured  destruction  amongst  these, 
cutting  several  of  the  boats  "  into  chips,"  and  compelling  all  that  could  keep 
afloat  to  seek  their  safety  in  flight.  Six  or  seven  boats  were  seen  to  go  down, 
and  one  small  flat,  No.  13,  was  afterwards  towed  in,  bottom  upwards.  She 
appeared,  by  some  pieces  of  paper  found  in  her,  to  have  had  144  persons  on 
board,  including  129  of  the  second  company  of  the  Boulogne  battalion. 

The  loss  sustained  by  the  British  garrison  amounted  to  one  private-marine 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  185 

killed,  and  two  private-marines  and  two  seamen  wounded.  According  to  one 
French  account,  the  invaders  lost  about  900  in  killed  or  drowned,  and  between 
300  and  400  wounded.  As  a  reward  for  their  conduct  on  this  occasion,  Lieuten- 
ants PRICE  and  BOURNE  were  each  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Commander.  The 
former  died  a  Post  Captain,  at  Hereford,  in  1813,  aged  62.  — James's  A'aral  History, 
vol.  ii.,  pp.  128-131 :  ed.  1886.— ED.] 

[M.  PLl5viLLE  was  Minister  of  Marine,  and,  shortly  after  this  unsuccessful 
dfbut  of  the  famous  flotilla,  was  succeeded  by  Rear-Adm.  Bruix,  who  directed 
Rear-Adm.  La  Crosse  to  take  the  command,  and  to  make  a  second  attack  upon 
the  islands.  This,  however,  the  French  Government  declined  to  make. — ED.] 

HELEN  MARIA  WILLIAMS. 

HELEN  MARIA  WILLIAMS.—!"  Among  the  literary  celebrities  of  the  French 
Revolution  was  Helen  Maria  Williams,  at  whose  house  were  wont  to  assemble 
the  most  distinguished  of  the  liberal  writers  of  France,  her  own  reputation 
giving  considerable  eclat  to  these  meetings.  She  wrote  some  of  the  most 
beautiful  hymns  in  our  language,  was  a  prisoner  under  the  rtiyn  of  terror,  and 
published  a  work  on  the  French  Revolution  which  is  full  of  the  most  touching 
incidents,  and  adorned  with  specimens  of  the  ardent  and  pathetic  poetry,  the 
product  of  French  genius  under  the  excitement  of  those  most  mysterious  days. 
A.  Humboldt  was  much  attached  to  her,  and  committed  to  her  care  the  trans- 
lation and  publication  of  some  of  his  most  elaborate  works. 

"She  had  two  nephews,  ATHANAS  and  CHARLES  COQUEREL,  whom  she 
educated,  and  who  both  attained  considerable  fame,  one  in  the  theological  and 
the  other  in  the  political  field.  Athanas  was  for  some  time  the  preacher  in  the 
Protestant  Church  at  Amsterdam,  and  married  the  daughter  of  a  Swiss  gentle- 
man, the  only  person  I  have  ever  known  on  the  Continent  to  adopt  the  dress  and 
profess  the  opinions  of  an  English  Quaker.  Miss  Williams  maintained  intimate 
relations  with  her  English  friends,  was  familiar  with  the  great  lights  of  the 
Revolution,  and  her  conversation  was  most  instructive,  entertaining,  and 
varied.  All  her  sympathies  were  on  the  side  of  freedom,  and  though  she  was 
not  so  prominent  as  to  be  persecuted  by  the  Emperor,  like  Madame  de  Stael, 
she  was  the  object  of  a  good  deal  of  suspicion  and  narrowly  watched  by  the 
police." — Autobr.  Recollections  by  Sir  John  Boicring,  pp.  353-4. — ED.] 

[Miss  WILLIAMS,  for  some  years,  wrote  that  portion  of  the  New  Annual  Register 
which  relates  to  France.  Among  many  other  productions  she  was  the  author 
of  the  song  Evan  Banks  (to  the  tune  of  Savauriui  Delish),  which  has  often  been 
attributed  to  Burns ;  a  novel  called  Julia,  and  a  Tour  in  Switzerland.  Horace 
Walpole  called  her  In  his  Correspondence  a  "scribbling  trollop". 

Sne  lived  for  many  years,  and  until  the  death  of  that  gentleman — in  Paris, 
1818— under  the  jn-oteclion  of  JOHN  HURFORD  STONE,  a.  man  of  letters,  who  in 
the  early  part  of  the  French  Revolution  had  removed  witli  his  wife  to  Paris, 
where  he  formed  an  intimacy  with  Miss  Williams.  She  was  born  about  1762, 
and  died  in  Paris  in  1827  as  a  friend  to  the  Bourbons,  and  the  enemy  of  the 
Revolution ! 

This  MR.  STONE  was  born  at  Tiverton  in  1763.  While  in  Paris  he  was  in  the 
confidence  of  the  Directory,  and  became  one  of  the  chief  printers  there.  In 
1805.  he  brought  out  an  edition  of  the  Genera  Bible,  and  published  several 
English  reprints  ;  also  Miss  Williams's  translation  of  HUMBOLDT'S  Travels.  His 
brother,  \\  M.  STONE,  was  tried  in  1796  for  High  Treason,  for  holding  treason- 
able correspondence  with  him. — ED.] 


ELEGY 

ON    THE    DEATH   OF   JEAN   BON    ST.    ANDRE". 

The  following  exquisite  tribute  to  the  memory  of  an 
unfortunate  republican  is  written  with  such  a  touching 


186  POETRY    OF 

sensibility,  that  those  who  can  command  salt  tears  must 
prepare  to  shed  them.  The  narrative  is  simple  and  un- 
affected ;  the  event  in  itself  interesting ;  the  moral 
obvious  and  awful. — We  have  only  to  observe,  that  as 
this  account  of  the  transaction  is  taken  from  the  French 
papers,  it  may  possibly  be  somewhat  partial. — The 
DEY'S  own  statement  of  the  affair  has  not  yet  been 
received.  Every  friend  of  humanity  will  join  with  us  in 
expressing  a  candid  and  benevolent  hope,  that  this  busi- 
ness may  not  tend  to  kindle  the  flames  of  war  between 
these  two  unchristian  powers  ;  but  that,  by  mutual  con- 
cession and  accommodation,  they  may  come  to  some 
point  (short  of  the  restoration  of  JEAN  BON'S  head  on  his 
shoulders,  which  in  this  stage  of  the  discussion  is  hardly 
practicable)  by  which  the  peace  of  the  Pagan  world  may 
be  preserved.  For  our  part,  we  pretend  not  to  decide 
from  which  quarter  the  concessions  ought  principally  to 
be  made.  It  is  but  candid  to  allow  that  there  are  pro- 
bably faults  on  both  sides,  in  this,  as  in  most  other  cases. 
For  the  character  of  the  DEY  we  profess  a  sincere  re- 
spect on  the  one  hand ;  and  on  the  other,  we  naturally 
wish  that  the  head  of  JEAN  BON  ST.  ANDE^  should  be 
reserved  for  his  own  guillotine. 

ELEGY;  OE,  DIKGE. 
i. 

ALL  in  the  town  of  TUNIS, 
In  Africa  the  torrid, 

On  a  Frenchman  of  rank 

Was  played  such  a  prank, 
As  LEPAUX  must  think  quite  horrid. 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  187 

II. 

No  story  half  so  shocking, 
By  kitchen  fire  or  laundry, 

Was  ever  heard  tell, — 

As  that  which  befel 
The  great  JEAN  BON  ST.  ANDRE.* 

in. 

Poor  John  was  a  gallant  Captain, 
In  battles  much  delighting  ; 

He  fled  full  soon 

On  the  first  of  June — 
But  he  bade  the  rest  keep  fighting. 

IV. 

To  Paris  then  returning, 
And  recovered  from  his  panic, 

He  translated  the  plan 

Of  Fame's  Rights  of  Man, 
Into  language  Mauritanic. 

v. 

He  went  to  teach  at  Tunis — 
Where  as  Consul  he  was  settled — 

[*  Jean  Bon  St.  Andr£,  deputy  to  the  Convention  for  the 
Department  of  Lot,  during  the  reign  of  Terror,  rivalled  Marat 
and  Robespierre  in  cruelty.  Having  been  appointed  to  re- 
model the  Republican  Navy,  he  was  present  at  the  action  of 
June  1,  1794,  in  which  he  shewed  excessive  cowardice.  He 
was  afterwards  Consul  at  Smyrna,  where  he  was  arrested  by 
the  Turks,  but  released  on  the  peace.  Napoleon  subsequently 
commissioned  him  to  organise  the  four  departments  of  the 
Rhine,  in  which  he  succeeded.  He  was  created  a  Baron,  a 
Chevalier  of  the  Legion  of  Honour  and  Prefect  of  Maure.  He 
died  in  1813  of  a  contagious  malady  caught  while  performing 
charitable  offices  for  the  sick  ! — ED.] 


188  POETRY    OF 

Amongst  other  things, 
"  That  the  people  are  kings  !  " 
Whereat  the  DEY  was  nettled. 

VI. 

The  Moors  being  rather  stupid, 
And  in  temper  somewhat  mulish, 
Understood  not  a  word 
Of  the  doctrine  they  heard, 
And  thought  the  Consul  foolish. 

VII. 

He  formed  a  Club  of  Brothers, 
And  moved  some  resolutions — 

"Ho  !   ho  !    (says  the  DEY), 

"  So  this  is  the  way 
"  That  the  French  make  Revolutions  ". 

VIII. 

The  DEY  then  gave  his  orders 
In  Arabic  and  Persian— 

"  Let  no  more  be  said — 

But  bring  me  his  head  1 
These  Clubs  are  my  aversion  ". 

IX. 

The  Consul  quoted  WICQUEFOKT, 
And  PUFFENDORF  and  GROTIUS  ; 

And  proved  from  VATTEL 

Exceedingly  well, 
Such  a  deed  would  be  quite  atrocious. 

x. 

'Twould  have  moved  a  Christian's  bowels 
To  hear  the  doubts  he  stated ; — 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  189 

But  the  Moors  they  did 
As  they  were  bid, 
And  strangled  him  while  he  prated. 

XI. 

His  head  with  a  sharp-edged  sabre 
They  severed  from  his  shoulders, 

And  stuck  it  on  high, 

Where  it  caught  the  eye, 
To  the  wonder  of  all  beholders. 

XII. 

This  sure  is  a  doleful  story 

As  e'er  you  heard  or  read  of ; — 

If  at  Tunis  you  prate 

Of  matters  of  state, 
Anon  they  cut  your  head  off  ! 

XIII. 

But  we  hear  the  French  Directors 
Have  thought  the  point  so  knotty  ; 

That  the  DEY  having  shown 

He  dislikes  JEAN  BON, 
They  have  sent  him  BERNADOTTE". 

On  recurring  to  the  French  papers  to  verify  our  Cor- 
respondent's statement  of  this  singular  adventure  of 
JEAN  BON  ST.  ANDRE,  we  discovered,  to  our  great  morti- 
fication, that  it  happened  at  ALGIERS,  and  not  at  TUNIS. 
We  should  have  corrected  this  mistake,  but  for  two 
reasons— first,  that  ALGIERS  would  not  stand  in  the 
verse  ;  and,  secondly,  that  we  are  informed  by  the  young 
man  who  conducts  the  Geographical  Department  of  the 
Morning  Chronicle,  that  both  the  towns  are  in  Africa,  or 


190  POETRY   OF 

Asia  (he  is  not  quite  certain  which),  and,  what  is  more 
to  the  purpose,  that  both  are  peopled  by  Moors.  TUNIS, 
therefore,  may  stand. 

[MARSHAL  BERNADOTTE",  the  French  Prince  of  Monti  Corvo,  died  as  CHARLES 
JOHN  XIV.,  King  of  Sweden,  8th  March,  1844,  in  his  eighty-first  year.  He 
married,  in  1798,  EuGENiA-BERNARDiNA-DfisiRfiE  DE  CLARY,  daughter  of  a 
Marseilles  merchant,  and  sister  of  MADAME  JOSEPH  BUONAPARTE  (Queen  of 
Spain).  "  She,  who  was  not  a  common-place  person,"  says  MADAME  DE 
RfiMUSAT,  in  her  valuable  Memoirs,  "  had  before  her  marriage  been  very  much 
in  love  with  Napoleon,  and  appears  to  have  always  preserved  the  memory  of 
that  feeling !  It  has  been  supposed  that  her  hardly  extinguished  passion 
caused  her  obstinate  refusal  to  leave  France."  She  survived  her  husband 
many  years,  and  died  in  Paris,  in  the  Rue  d'Anjou  Saint  Honore'.  Her  husband 
was  succeeded  on  the  throne  of  Sweden  by  their  son,  OSCAR  I.,  who  married 
JOSEPHINE,  daughter  of  EUGENE  BEAUHAHNAis,  Due  de  Leuchtenberg,  and 
granddaughter  of  the  EMPRESS  JOSEPHINE. 

BERNADOTTE'  owed  his  elevation  to  the  throne  to  the  misgoverninent  of 
Gustavus  IV.,  who  had  brought  the  nation  to  the  verge  of  ruin,  and  who  was  de- 
posed in  1809,  when  his  uncle,  the  Duke  of  Sudermama,  became  king  as  Charles 
XIII. ;  and  the  next  year,  BERNADOTI£  was  elected  Cromi  Prince,  and  successor 
to  the  throne. 

In  1813,  he  rendered  great  assistance  to  the  Allies,  for,  as  Crown  Prince,  he 
joined  the  confederacy  against  France  with  30,000  men ;  and,  after  defeating 
Marshal  Ney,  with  great  loss,  on  the  6th  September,  he,  on  the  18th  October, 
with  the  co-operation  of  Blticher,  again  defeated  him  at  the  decisive  Battle  of 
Leipsic  ;  and,  on  the  19th,  the  Emperor  Alexander,  the  King  of  Prussia,  and 
the  Crown  Prince,  entered  the  great  square  of  Leipsic,  amidst  the  acclamations 
of  the  inhabitants.  He  was  a  decided  democrat,  and  hated  by  Napoleon,  but 
was  the  only  sovereign  of  the  revolutionary  branch  who  was  permitted  to  retain 
his  dominions  after  the  great  reaction  in  1814.  The  choice  made  of  this 
great  soldier  of  fortune  excited  the  surprise  of  all  Europe  at  the  time,  but  the 
wisdom  of  it  was  soon  demonstrated  by  his  prudent  conduct.  He  had 
distinguished  himself  from  all  Napoleon's  other  marshals  by  his  clemency 
in  victory.  For  half  a  century  before  his  accession,  Sweden  had  not  known  the 
peace  and  prosperity  in  which  he  left  the  country  on  his  death. 

In  T.  RAIKES'S  Diary  will  be  found  some  interesting  anecdotes  of  BERNA- 
DOTT^'S  gratitude  for  services  rendered  him  while  a  young  subaltern.  But  one 
is  of  a  more  startling  nature,  as  it  records  his  narrow  escape  from  the  death 
intended  for  him  by  the  widow  of  the  late  king,  who  had  purposely  prepared  a 
poisoned  cup  of  coffee  for  him,  which  she  herself  presented  to  him  at  her  own 
table.  Having  been  suddenly  warned,  he  succeeded  in  forcing  it  upon  her 
She  resolutely  accepted  her  fate,  and  died  during  the  night.— ED. 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  191 


No.  XXVIII. 

May  21,  1798. 

have  received  the  following  letter,  with  the  poem 
that  accompanies  it,  from  a  gentleman  whose  political 
opinions  have  hitherto  differed  from  our  own  ;  but  who 
appears  to  feel,  as  every  man  who  loves  his  country 
must,  that  there  can  be  but  one  sentiment  entertained 
by  Englishmen  at  the  present  moment. 

Were  we  at  liberty,  we  should  be  happy  to  do  justice 
to  the  author,  and  credit  to  ourselves,  by  mentioning  his 
name. 

TO    THE    EDITOR    OF    THE    "  ANTI-JACOBIN  ". 

SIB, — However  men  may  have  differed  on  the  political 
or  constitutional  questions  which  have  of  late  been 
brought  into  discussion — whatever  opinions  they  may 
have  held  on  the  system  or  conduct  of  administration — 
there  can  surely  be  now  but  one  sentiment  as  to  the 
instant  necessity  of  firm  and  strenuous  union  for  the 
preservation  of  our  very  existence  as  a  people  ;  and  if 
degrees  of  obligation  could  be  admitted,  where  the 
utmost  is  required  from  all,  it  should  seem  that  in  this 
cause  the  opposers  of  administration  stand  doubly 
pledged  ;  for  with  what  face  of  consistency  can  men  pre- 
tend to  stickle  for  points  of  constitutional  liberty  at 
home,  who  will  not  be  found  amongst  the  foremost  at 
their  posts  to  defend  their  country  from  the  yoke  of 
foreign  slavery  ? 

That  there  should  be  any  set  of  men  so  infatuated  as 
not  to  be  convinced  that  the  object  of  the  enemy  must 


192  POETRY    OF 

be  the  utter  destruction  of  these  countries,  after  making 
the  largest  allowance  for  the  effects  of  prejudice  and 
passion,  it  is  not  easy  to  conceive.  Such,  however,  we 
are  told,  there  are.  They  believe,  then,  that  after  a  long 
series  of  outrage,  insult,  and  injury,  in  the  height  of 
their  animosity  and  presumption,  these  moderate,  mild, 
disinterested  conquerors  will  invade  us  in  arms,  out  of 
pure  love  and  kindness,  merely  for  our  good,  only  to 
make  us  wiser,  and  better,  and  happier,  and  more  pros- 
perous than  before  ! 

Future  events  lie  hid  in  the  volume  of  Fate,  but  the 
intentions  of  men  may  be  known  by  almost  infallible 
indications.  .  Passion  and  interest,  the  two  mighty 
motives  of  human  action,  determine  the  Government  of 
France  to  attempt  the  abolition  of  the  British  Empire  ! 
and  if,  abandoned  by  God  and  our  right  arm,  we  should 
flinch  in  the  conflict,  that  destruction  will  be  operative 
to  the  full  of  their  gigantic  and  monstrous  imaginations  ! 
— Harbours  filled  up  with  the  ruins  of  their  towns  and 
arsenals,  the  Thames  rendered  a  vast  morass,  by  burying 
the  Imperial  City  in  her  bosom — but  I  will  not  proceed 
in  the  horrible  picture. 

Are  we  then,  it  may  be  asked,  to  wage  eternal  war  ? — 
No  ;  a  glorious  resistance  leads  to  an  honourable  peace. 
The  French  people  have  been  long  weary  of  the  war ; 
their  spirit  has  been  forced  by  a  system  which  must  end 
in  the  failure  of  the  engagement  to  give  them  the  plunder 
of  this  country.  They  will  awake  from  their  dream,  and 
raise  a  cry  for  peace,  which  their  government  will  not 
dare  to  resist.  The  monarchs  of  Europe  must  now  begin 
clearly  to  perceive  that  their  fate  hangs  on  the  destiny 
of  England ;  they  will  unite  to  compel  a  satisfactory 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  193 

peace  on  a  broad  foundation  ;  and  peace,  when  war  has 
been  tried  to  the  utmost,  will  probably  be  permanent. 
A  few  years  of  wise  economy  and  redoubled  industry 
will  place  us  again  on  the  rising  scale  ;  and  if  the  pres- 
sure of  the  times  may  have  rendered  it  necessary  some- 
times to  have  cast  a  temporary  veil  over  the  statue  of 
Liberty,  she  may  again  safely  be  shown  in  an  unimpaired 
lustre. 

Of  the  following  verses  I  have  nothing  to  say :  if  it 
should  be  decided  that  the  greatness  of  the  object  cannot 
bear  out  the  mediocrity  of  the  execution,  I  will  not  appeal 
from  the  decision. 

ODE  TO  MY  COUNTEY. 

MDCCXCVIII. 
S.    1. 

BKITONS  !  hands  and  hearts  prepare  : 
The  angry  tempest  threatens  nigh, 
Deep-toned  thunders  roll  in  air, 

Lightnings  thwart  the  livid  sky  ; 
Throned  upon  the  winged  storm, 
Fell  DESOLATION  rears  her  ghastly  form, 
Waves  her  black  signal  to  her  Hell-born  brood, 
And  lures  them  thus  with  promised  blood  : 

A.  1. 
"  Drive,  my  sons,  the  storm  amain  ! 

Lo,  the  hated,  envied  land, 
Where  PIETY  and  ORDER  reign, 

And  Freedom  dares  maintain  her  stand. 
Have  ye  not  sworn,  by  night  and  hell, 
These  from  the  earth  for  ever  to  expel  ? 
13 


194  POETRY   OF 

Bush  on,  resistless,  to  your  destined  prey, 
Death  and  rapine  point  the  way." 

E.  1. 

Britons  !  stand  firm  !  with  stout  and  dauntless  heart 

Meet  unappall'd  the  threatening  boaster's  rage  ; 
Yours  is  the  great,  the  unconquerable  part, 

For  your  loved  hearths  and  altars  to  engage, 
And  sacred  LIBERTY,  more  dear  than  life — 
Yours  be  the  triumph  in  the  glorious  strife. 
Shall  theft  and  murder  braver  deeds  excite 
Than  honest  scorn  of  shame  and  heavenly  love  of  right  ? 

S.  2. 

Turn  the  bright  historic  page  ! 

Still  in  glory's  tented  field, 
Albion's  arms,  for  many  an  age, 

Have  taught  proud  Gallia's  bands  to  yield. 
Are  not  WE  the  sons  of  those 
Whose  steel-clad  sires  pursued  the  insulting  foes, 
E'en  to  the  centre  of  their  wide  domain, 
And  bowed  them  to  a  BRITON'S  reign  ?  * 

A.  2. 

Kings,  in  modest  triumph  led, 

Graced  the  SABLE  VICTOR'S  arms  :  f 
His  conquering  lance,  the  battle's  dread ; — 

His  courtesy  the  conquered  charms. 
The  lion-heart  soft  pity  knows, 
To  raise  with  soothing  cares  his  prostrate  foes  ; 

*  Henry  VI.  crowned  at  Paris.        f  The  Black  Prince. 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  195 

The  vanquished  head  true  valour  ne'er  oppress'd, 
Nor  shunn'd  to  succour  the  distress'd. 

E.  2. 
Spirit  of  great  ELIZABETH  !  inspire 

High  thoughts,  high  deeds,  worthy  our  ancient  fame  ; 
Breathe  through  our  ardent  ranks  the  patriot  fire, 

Kindled  at  Freedom's  ever-hallowed  flame  ; 
Baffled  and  scorned,  the  Iberian  tyrant  found, 
Though  half  a  world  his  iron  sceptre  bound, 
The  gallant  Amazon  could  sweep  away, 
Armed  with  her  people's  love,  the  "  INVINCIBLE  "  array.  * 

S.  3. 
The  BOLD  USURPER  f  firmly  held 

The  sword  by  splendid  treasons  gained  ; 
And  Gallia's  fiery  genius  quelled, 

And  Spain's  presumptuous  claims  restrained : 
When  lust  of  sway,  by  flattery  fed,  J 
To  venturous  deeds  the  youthful  monarch  led, 
In  the  full  flow  of  victory's  swelling  tide 
Britain  checked  his  power  and  pride. 

A.  3. 
To  the  great  BATAVIAN'S  name  § 

Ceaseless  hymns  of  triumph  raise  ! 
Scourge  of  tyrants,  let  his  fame 

Live  in  songs  of  grateful  praise. 
Thy  turrets,  BLENHEIM,  ||  glittering  to  the  sun, 
Tell  of  bright  fields  from  warlike  Gallia  won  ; 

*  The  Spanish  Armada.       t  Oliver  Cromwell       J  Louis  XIV. 
§  William  III.  ||  Blenheim,  Ramilies,  <fec.,  &c. 


196  POETRY   OF 

Tell  how  the  mighty  monarch  mourned  in  vain 
His  impious  wish  the  world  to  chain. 

E.  3. 

And  ye  famed  heroes,  late  retired  to  heaven, 

Whose  setting  glories  still  the  skies  illume, 
Bend  from  the  blissful  seats  to  virtue  given — 

Avert  your  long-defended  country's  doom. 
Earth  from  her  utmost  bounds  shall  wondering  tell 
How  victory's  meed  ye  gained,  or  conquering  fell ; 
Britain's  dread  thunders  bore  from  pole  to  pole, 
Wherever  man  is  found,  or  refluent  oceans  roll. 

S.  4. 

Names  embalmed  in  honour's  shrine, 

Sacred  to  immortal  praise, 
Patterns  of  glory,  born  to  shine 

In  breathing  arts  or  pictured  lays  : 
See  WOLFE,  by  yielding  numbers  pressed, 
Expiring  smile,  and  sink  on  victory's  breast ! 
See  MINDEN'S  plains  and  BISCAY'S  billowy  bay 
Deeds  of  deathless  fame  display. 

A.  4. 

0  !  tread  with  awe  the  sacred  gloom, 

Patriot  Virtue's  last  retreat; 
Where  Glory,  on  the  trophied  tomb, 

Joys  their  merit  to  repeat ; 
There  CHATHAM  lies,  whose  master-hand 
Guided  through  seven  bright  years  the  mighty  band, 
That  round  his  urn,  where  grateful  Memory  weeps, 
Each  in  his  hallowed  marble  sleeps. 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  197 

E.    4. 

Her  brand  accursed  when  civil  discord  hurled,* 

Britain  alone  the  united  world  withstood, 
KODNEY  his  fortune-favoured  sails  unfurled, 

And  led  three  nation's  chiefs  to  Thames's  flood. 
Firm  on  his  rock  the  VETERAN  HERO  t  stands ; 

Beneath  his  feet  unheeded  thunders  roar ; 
Smiling  in  scorn,  he  sees  the  glittering  bands 

Fly  with  repulse  and  shame  old  CALPE'S  hopeless 
shore. 

S.  5. 

Heirs  or  partners  of  their  toils, 

Matchless  heroes  still  we  own  ; 
Crowned  with  honourable  spoils 

From  the  leagued  nations  won. 
On  their  high  prows  they  proudly  stand, 
The  godlike  guardians  of  their  native  land ; 
Lords  of  the  mighty  deep  triumphant  ride, 
Wealth  and  victory  at  their  side. 

A.  5. 

Loyal,  bold,  and  generous  bands, 

Strenuous  in  their  country's  cause, 
Guard  their  cultivated  lands, 

Their  altars,  liberties,  and  laws. 
On  his  firm,  deep-founded  throne, 
Great  BRUNSWICK  sits — a  name  to  fear  unknown, 
With  brow  erect  commands  the  glorious  strife, 
Unawed,  and  prodigal  of  life. 

*  American  Wax.  t  Lord  Heathtield. 


198  POETKY    OF 

E.  5. 
Sons  of  fair  Freedom's  long-descended  line, 

To  Gallia's  yoke  shall  Britons  bend  the  neck  ?- 
No ;  in  her  cause  though  fate  and  hell  combine 

To  bury  all  in  universal  wreck, 
Of  this  fair  Isle  to  make  one  dreary  waste, 
Her  greatness  in  her  ruins  only  traced, — 
Arts,  commerce,  arms,  sunk  in  one  common  grave- 
The  man  who  dares  to  die  will  never  live  a  slave. 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  199 


No.  XXIX. 

May  28,  1798. 

IN  a  former  number,  we  were  enabled,  by  the  com- 
munication of  a  classical  correspondent,  to  compliment 
CITIZEN  MUSKEIN  with  an  Address  to  his  Gun-boats, 
imitated  from  a  favourite  Ode  of  Horace.  Another  (or 
perhaps  the  same)  hand  has  obligingly  furnished  us 
with  a  composition,  which  we  have  no  doubt  will  be 
equally  acceptable  to  the  citizen  to  whom  it  is  ad- 
dressed. 

ODE  TO  THE  DIEECTOE  MEELTN. 

HOBACE,  B.  I.,  O.  V. 

WHO  now  from  Naples,  Eome,  or  Berlin, 
Creeps  to  thy  blood-stained  den,  0  MERLIN, 
With  diplomatic  gold  ? — to  whom 
Dost  thou  give  audience  en  costume  ? 

King  Citizen  ! — How  sure  each  state 
That  bribes  thy  love  shall  feel  thy  hate ; 
Shall  see  the  democratic  storm 
Her  commerce,  laws,  and  arts  deform. 

How  credulous,  to  hope  the  bribe 
Could  purchase  peace  from  MERLIN'S  tribe  ! 
Whom,  faithless  as  the  waves  or  wind, 
No  oaths  restrain,  no  treaties  bind. 

For  us — beneath  yon  SACRED  ROOF, 
The  NAVAL  FLAGS  and  arms  of  proof, 
By  British  valour  nobly  bought, 
Show  how  true  safety  must  be  sought ! 


200  POETKY    OF 

[THIERS,  in  his  History  of  the  French  Revolution,  frequently 
asserts  the  incorruptibility  (with  the  exception  of  BARRAS)  of 
the  French  Directory.  But  ALISON,  in  his  History,  exposes  the 
extraordinary  conduct  of  M.  DE  TALLEYRAND,  then  Minister  of 
Foreign  Affairs,  towards  the  Envoys  from  the  United  States  of 
America,  who  complained  that  an  immense  number  of  American 
vessels  had  been  seized  by  the  French  Government  under  a 
decree  of  Jan.,  1798,  which  directed  that  all  ships  having  for 
their  cargoes,  in  whole  or  in  part,  any  English  merchandise, 
should  be  held  lawful  prize,  whoever  was  the  proprietor  thereof, 
from  the  single  circumstance  of  its  coming  from  England  or  its 
foreign  settlements.  The  Envoys  were  told  that  nothing  could 
be  done  till  their  Government  had  advanced  a  sum  equal  to 
1,280,OOOL  as  a  loan,  and  50,0001.  as  a  douceur  to  the  Directors. 
These  terms  were,  of  course,  indignantly  rejected.  The  Hanse 
Towns,  too,  only  obtained  licenses  to  navigate  the  high  seas  by 
the  secret  payment  of  150,0001.  to  the  Republican  rulers. — ED.] 


[LYEICS  OF  HORACE.     BOOK  I.,  ODE  V. 

TRANSLATED    BY   ARCHDEACON    WRANGHAM. 

What  slender  youth,  all  essenced  o'er, 
In  sweet  alcove  or  rosy  bower, 
Now  woos  thee,  Pyrrha,  to  be  kind  ? 
For  whom  these  tresses  dost  thou  bind, 
Thus  simply  neat  ?     0  how  shall  he, 
Poor  youth !    bewail  the  boisterous  sea, 
Rough  with  black  tempests  1     How  accuse 
Capricious  Gods,  and  broken  vows  ! 

Fond  dupe  1   he  hopes — so  sweet  that  kiss — 
Thou'lt  still  be  witching,  still  be  his ! 
What  treacherous  gales  beset  his  way, 
Ah !   little  knows  he  !     Hapless  they, 
Who  ne'er  thy  faithless  smiles  have  tried  ! 
— That  I  have  'scaped  the  whelming  tide, 
A  tablet  and  my  dripping  vest, 
Hung  up  in  Neptune's  fane,  attest. — ED.] 


THE    AXTI- JACOBIN.  201 


No.    XXX. 

June  4,  1798. 

OUR  ingenious  correspondent,  MB.  HIGGINS,  has  not 
been  idle.  The  deserved  popularity  of  the  extracts  which 
we  have  been  enabled  to  give  from  his  two  didactic 
poems,  the  Progress  of  Man,  and  the  Loves  of  the  Triangles, 
has  obtained  for  us  the  communications  of  several  other 
works  which  he  has  in  hand,  all  framed  upon  the  same 
principle,  and  directed  to  the  same  end.  The  propaga- 
tion of  the  New  System  of  Philosophy  forms,  as  he  has 
himself  candidly  avowed  to  us,  the  main  object  of  all  his 
writings.  A  system,  comprehending  not  politics  only 
and  religion,  but  morals  and  manners,  and  generally 
whatever  goes  to  the  composition  or  holding  together  of 
human  society ;  in  all  of  which  a  total  change  and  re- 
volution is  absolutely  necessary  (as  he  contends)  for  the 
advancement  of  our  common  nature  to  its  true  dignity, 
and  to  the  summit  of  that  perfection  which  the  combina- 
tion of  matter,  called  MAN,  is  by  its  innate  energies 
capable  of  attaining. 

Of  this  system,  while  the  sublimer  and  more  scientific 
branches  are  to  be  taught  by  the  splendid  and  striking 
medium  of  didactic  poetry,  or  ratiocination  in  rhyme, 
illustrated  with  such  paintings  and  portraitures  of 
essences  and  their  attributes  as  may  lay  hold  of  the 
imagination  while  they  perplex  the  judgment ; — the 
more  ordinary  parts,  such  as  relate  to  the  conduct  of 
common  life  and  the  regulation  of  social  feelings,  are 
naturally  the  subject  of  a  less  elevated  style  of  writing ; 


202  POETKY   OF 

of  a  style  which  speaks  to  the  eye  as  well  as  to  the  ear, 
— in  short,  of  dramatic  poetry  and  scenic  representation. 

"  With  this  view,"  says  MK.  HIGGINS  (for  we  love  to 
quote  the  very  words  of  this  extraordinary  and  indefatig- 
able writer), — "  with  this  view,"  says  he,  in  a  letter 
dated  from  his  study  in  St.  Mary  Axe,  the  window  of 
which  looks  upon  the  parish  pump, — "with  this  view  I 
have  turned  my  thoughts  more  particularly  to  the 
German  stage,  and  have  composed — in  imitation  of  the 
most  popular  pieces  of  that  country,  which  have  already 
met  with  so  general  reception  and  admiration  in  this — a 
Play;  which,  if  it  has  a  proper  run,  will,  I  think,  do 
much  to  unhinge  the  present  notions  of  men  with  regard 
to  the  obligations  of  civil  society,  and  to  substitute,  in 
lieu  of  a  sober  contentment,  and  regular  discharge  of  the 
duties  incident  to  each  man's  particular  situation,  a  wild 
desire  of  undefinable  latitude  and  extravagance, — an 
aspiration  after  shapeless  somethings  that  can  neither  be 
described  nor  understood, — a  contemptuous  disgust  at 
all  that  is,  and  a  persuasion  that  nothing  is  as  it  ought 
to  be;— to  operate,  in  short,  a  general  discharge  of  every 
man  (in  his  own  estimation)  from  every  tie  which  laws, 
divine  or  human,  which  local  customs,  immemorial 
habits,  and  multiplied  examples,  impose  upon  him ;  and 
to  set  them  about  doing  what  they  like,  where  they  like, 
when  they  like,  and  how  they  like, — without  reference  to 
any  law  but  their  own  will,  or  to  any  consideration  of 
how  others  may  be  affected  by  their  conduct. 

"When  this  is  done,  my  dear  sir,"  continues  Mr.  H. 
(for  he  writes  very  confidentially) — "  you  see  that  a  great 
step  is  gained  towards  the  dissolution  of  the  frame  of 
every  existing  community.  I  say  nothing  of  Governments, 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  203 

as  their  fall  is  of  course  implicated  in  that  of  the  social 
system ; — and  you  have  long  known  that  I  hold  every 
Government  (that  acts  by  coercion  and  restriction — by 
laws  made  by  the  few  to  bind  the  many)  as  a  malum  in 
se, — an  evil  to  be  eradicated, — a  nuisance  to  be  abated, 
— by  force,  if  force  be  practicable ;  if  not,  by  the  artillery 
of  reason,  by  pamphlets,  speeches,  toasts  at  club-dinners, 
and  though  last,  not  least,  by  didactic  poems. 

"  But  where  would  be  the  advantage  of  the  destruction 
of  this  or  that  Government,  if  the  form  of  Society  itself 
were  to  be  suffered  to  continue  such  as  that  another 
must  necessarily  arise  out  of  it  and  over  it  ? — Society, 
my  dear  sir,  in  its  present  state,  is  a  hydra.  Cut  off  one 
head, — another  presently  sprouts  out,  and  your  labour 
is  to  begin  again.  At  best  you  can  only  hope  to  find  it  a 
poll/pits; — where,  by  cutting  off  the  head,  you  are  some- 
times fortunate  enough  to  find  a  tail  (which  answers  all 
the  same  purposes)  spring  up  in  its  place.  This,  we 
know,  has  been  the  case  in  France ;  the  only  country  in 
which  the  great  experiment  of  regeneration  has  been 
tried  with  anything  like  a  fair  chance  of  success. 

"  Destroy  the  frame  of  society, — decompose  its  parts, 
— and  see  the  elements  fighting  one  against  another, — 
insulated  and  individual, — every  man  for  himself  (stripped 
of  prejudice,  of  bigotry,  and  of  feeling  for  others)  against 
the  remainder  of  his  species; — and  there  is  then  some 
hope  of  a  totally  new  order  of  things, — of  a  Radical  Reform 
in  the  present  corrupt  system  of  the  world. 

"The  German  Theatre  appears  to  proceed  on  this 
judicious  plan.  And  I  have  endeavoured  to  contribute 
my  mite  towards  extending  its  effect  and  its  popularity. 
There  is  one  obvious  advantage  attending  this  mode  of 


204  POETBY   OF 

teaching ; — that  it  can  proportion  the  infractions  of  law, 
religion,  or  morality,  which  it  recommends,  to  the 
capacity  of  a  reader  or  spectator.  If  you  tell  a  student, 
or  an  apprentice,  or  a  merchant's  clerk,  of  the  virtue  of  a 
Brutus,  or  of  the  splendour  of  a  La  Fayette,  you  may 
excite  his  desire  to  be  equally  conspicuous ;  but  how  is 
he  to  set  about  it  ?  Where  is  he  to  find  the  tyrant  to 
murder  ?  How  is  he  to  provide  the  monarch  to  be  im- 
prisoned, and  the  national  guards  to  be  reviewed  on  a 
white  horse  ? — But  paint  the  beauties  of  forgery  to  him 
in  glowing  colours ; — show  him  that  the  presumption  of 
virtue  is  in  favour  of  rapine  and  occasional  murder  on 
the  highway — and  he  presently  understands  you.  The 
highway  is  at  hand — the  till  or  the  counter  is  within 
reach.  These  haberdasher^  heroics  come  home  to  the 
business  and  the  bosoms  of  men. — And  you  may  readily 
make  ten  footpads,  where  you  would  not  have  materials 
nor  opportunity  for  a  single  tyrannicide. 

"The  subject  of  the  piece  which  I  herewith  transmit 
to  you  is  taken  from  common  or  middling  life ;  and  its 
merit  is  that  of  teaching  the  most  lofty  truths  in  the 
most  humble  style,  and  deducing  them  from  the  most 
ordinary  occurrences.  Its  moral  is  obvious  and  easy ; 
and  is  one  frequently  inculcated  by  the  German  dramas 
which  I  have  had  the  good  fortune  to  see ;  being  no  other 
than  '  the  reciprocal  duties  of  one,  or  more  husbands  to  one  or 
more  toives,  and  to  the  children  icho  may  happen  to  arise  out 
of  this  complicated  and  endear inff  connection '.  The  plot, 
indeed,  is  formed  by  the  combination  of  the  plots  of  tioo 
of  the  most  popular  of  these  plays  (in  the  same  way  as 
Terence  was  wont  to  combine  two  stories  of  Menander's). 
The  characters  are  such  as  the  admirers  of  these  plays 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  205 

will  recognise  for  their  familiar  acquaintances.  There 
are  the  usual  ingredients  of  imprisonments,  post-houses 
and  horns,  and  appeals  to  angels  and  devils.  I  have 
omitted  only  the  sicearing,  to  which  English  ears  are  not 
yet  sufficiently  accustomed. 

"  I  transmit  at  the  same  time  a  Prologue,  which  in 
some  degree  breaks  the  matter  to  the  audience.  About 
the  song  of  Eogero,  at  the  end  of  the  first  Act,  I  am  less 
anxious  than  about  any  other  part  of  the  performance, 
as  it  is,  in  fact,  literally  translated  from  the  composition 
of  a  young  German  friend  of  mine,  an  Illumine,  of  whom 
I  bought  the  original  for  three-and-sixpence.  It  will  be 
a  satisfaction  to  those  of  your  readers  who  may  not  at 
first  sight  hit  upon  the  tune,  to  learn  that  it  is  setting  by 
a  hand  of  the  first  eminence. — I  send  also  a  rough  sketch 
of  the  plot,  and  a  few  occasional  notes. — The  geograplty 
is  by  the  young  gentleman  of  the  Morning  Chronicle." 

THE  KOVEES;  OE,  THE  DOUBLE 
AEEANGEMENT. 

JJpramntis  -Persona?. 
PRIOR  of  the  ABBEY  of  QUEDLINBURQH,  very  corpulent  and 

cruel. 
KOGERO,   a    prisoner  in  the  Abbey,   in   love  with    MATILDA 

POTTINGEN. 

CASIMERE,  a  Polish  emigrant,  in  Dembrowsky's  legion,  married 
to  CECILIA,  but  having  several  children  by  MATILDA. 

PODDINGFIELD  and  BEEFINGTON,  English  noblemen,  exiled  by 
the  tyranny  of  King  John,  previous  to  the  signature  of 
Magna  Charta. 

KODERIC,  Count  of  SAXE  WEIMAR,  a  bloody  tyrant,  with  red 
hair,  and  an  amorous  complexion. 

GASPAR,  the  minister  of  the  Count — author  of  KOGERO'S  con- 
finement. 


206  POETBY    OF 

YOUNG  POTTINGEN,  brother  to  MATILDA. 

MATILDA  POTTINGEN,  in  love  with  KOGEKO,   and  mother  to 

CASIMERE'S  children. 
CECILIA  MUCKENFELD,  wife  to  CASIMERE. 
Landlady,  Waiter,  Grenadiers,  Troiibadours,  &c.,  &c. 
PANTALOWSKY    and    BRITCHINDA,    children    of    MATILDA,    by 

CASIMERE. 
JOACHIM,  JABEL,  and  AMARANTHA,  children  of  MATILDA,  by 

ROGERO. 
CHILDREN  OF   CASIMERE  AND   CECILIA,  with  their  respective 

Nurses. 
SEVERAL  CHILDREN — fathers  and  mothers  unknown. 

The-  Scene  lies  in  the  town  of  Weimar,  arid  the  neighbourhood  of 
the  Abbey  of  Quedlinburgh. 

Time  from  the  Yith  to  the  present  century. 
PEOLOGUE.* 

IN    CHAEACTER. 

Too  long  the  triumphs  of  our  early  times, 
With  civil  discord  and  with  regal  crimes, 
Have  stain'd  these  boards ;  while  Shakespeare's  pen  has 

shown 

Thoughts,  manners,  men,  to  modern  days  unknown. 
Too  long  have  Borne  and  Athens  been  the  rage  ; 

\_ApplaiLse. 
And  classic  Buskins  soil'd  a  British  stage. 

To-night  our  bard,  who  scorns  pedantic  rules, 
His  plot  has  borrow'd  from  the  German  schools ; 
The  German  schools — where  no  dull  maxims  bind 
The  bold  expansion  of  the  electric  mind. 

[*  Parodied  from  Pope's  Prologue  to  Cato. — ED.] 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  207 

Fix'd  to  no  period,  circled  by  no  space, 

He  leaps  the  flaming  bounds  of  time  and  place. 

Eound  the  dark  confines  of  the  forest  raves, 

With  gentle  Eobbers*  stocks  his  gloomy  caves  ; 

Tells  how  Prime  Ministers t  are  shocking  things, 

And  reigning  Dukes  as  bad  as  tyrant  Kings ; 

How  to  two  swains  J  one  nymph  her  vows  may  give, 

And  how  two  damsels:}:  with  one  lover  live  ! 

Delicious  scenes  ! — such  scenes  our  bard  displays, 

Which,  crown'd  with  German,  sue  for  British,  praise. 

Slow  are  the  steeds,  that  through  Germania's  roads 
With  hempen  rein  the  slumbering  post-boy  goads  ; 
Slow  is  the  slumbering  post-boy,  who  proceeds 
Thro'  deep  sands  floundering  on  those  tardy  steeds ; 
More  slow,  more  tedious,  from  his  husky  throat, 
Twangs  through  the  twisted  horn  the  struggling  note. 

These  truths  confess'd — Oh  !  yet,  ye  travell'd  few, 
Germania's  plnys  with  eyes  unjaundiced  view  ! 

*  See  The  Robbers,  a  German  tragedy  [by  SCHILLER],  in  which 
robbery  is  piit  in  so  fascinating  a  light,  that  the  whole  of  a 
German  University  went  upon  the  highway  in  consequence  of  it. 

f  See  Cabal  and  Love,  a  German  tragedy  [by  SCHILLER],  very 
severe  against  prime  ministers  and  reigning  Dukes  of  Bruns- 
wick. This  admirable  performance  very  judiciously  reprobates 
the  hire  of  German  troops  for  the  American  war  in  the  reign  of 
Queen  Elizabeth,  a  practice  which  would  undoubtedly  have 
been  highly  discreditable  to  that  wise  and  patriotic  princess, 
not  to  say  wholly  unnecessary — there  being  no  American  war 
at  that  particular  time. 

J  See  The  Stranger;  or,  Reformed  Housekeeper,  in  which  the 
former  of  these  morals  is  beautifully  illustrated ;  and  Stella,  a 
genteel  German  comedy  [by  GOETHE],  which  ends  with  placing 
a  man  bodkin  between  two  wives,  like  Thames  between  his  two 
banks  in  The  Critic.  Nothing  can  be  more  edifying  than  these 
two  dramas.  I  am  shocked  to  hear  that  there  are  some  people 
who  think  them  ridiculous. 


208  POETKY   OF 

View  and  approve  ! — though  in  each  passage  fine 
The  faint  translation*  mock  the  genuine  line ; 
Though  the  nice  ear  the  erring  sight  belie, 
For  U  twice  dotted  is  pronounced  like  /;*  [Applause. 

Yet  oft  the  scene  shall  nature's  fire  impart, 
Warm/ro??i  the  breast,  and  glowing  to  the  heart! 

Ye  travell'd  few,  attend ! — On  you  our  bard 
Builds  his  fond  hope  !     Do  you  his  genius  guard  ! 

[Applause. 

Nor  let  succeeding  generations  say 
A  British  audience  damn'd  a  German  play ! 

[Lond  and  continued  Applauses. 

Flash  of  lightning. — The  ghost  of  PROLOGUE'S  GRANDMOTHER 
by  the  Father's  side,  appears  to  soft  music,  in  a  vihite  tiffany 
riding-hood.  PROLOGUE  kneels  to  receive  her  blessing,  which 
she  gives  in  a  solemn  and  affecting  manner,  tlie  audience  clap- 
ping and  crying  all  the  while. — Flash  of  lightning. — PROLOGUE 
and  his  GRANDMOTHER  sink  through  the  trap-doors. 

THE  EOVEES;  OE,  THE  DOUBLE 
AEEANGEMENT. 

ACT    I.       SCENE    I. 

Scene  represents  a  room  at  an  inn,  at  Weimar — On  one  side  of 
the  stage  the  bar-room,  with  jellies,  lemons  in  nets,  syllabubs, 

*  Tlieae  are  the  warnings  very  properly  given  to  readers,  to 
beware  how  they  judge  of  what  they  cannot  understand.  Thus 
if  the  translation  runs,  "  lightning  of  my  soul,  fulgation  of  angels, 
sulphur  of  hell,"  we  should  recollect  that  this  is  not  coarse  or 
strange  in  the  German  language  when  applied  by  a  lover  to  his 
mistress ;  but  the  English  has  nothing  precisely  parallel  to  the 
original  Jttulgchausc  JUr hangdtchen,  which  means  rather  emana- 
tion of  the  archangelic  nature— or  to  ;SmeUm;rmkern  ^nnhclfcr,  which, 
if  literally  rendered,  would  signify  made  of  stuff  of  the  same  odour 
whereof  the  devil  makes  flambeaux.  See  Schiittenbriioh  on  the 
German  idiom. 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  209 

and  part  of  a  cold  roast  fowl,  <L-c. — On  the  opposite  side,  a  win- 
dow looking  into  the  street,  through  which  persons  (inhabitants  of 
Weimar)  are  seen  passing  to  and  fro  in  apparent  agitation — 
MATILDA  appears  in  a  great  coat  and  riding-habit,  seated  at 
the  corner  of  the  dinner-table,  which  is  covered  with  a  clean 
huckaback  cloth ;  plates  and  napkins,  with  buck's-horn-handled 
knives  and  forks,  are  laid  as  if  for  four  persons. 

MAT.  Is  it  impossible  for  me  to  have  dinner  sooner  ? 

LAND.  Madam,  the  Brunswick  post-waggon  is  not  yet 
come  in,  and  the  ordinary  is  never  before  two  o'clock. 

MAT.  [  With  a  look  expressive  of  disappointment,  but  imme- 
diately recomposing  herself.]  Well,  then,  I  must  have 
patience.  [Exit  Landlady.]  Oh  Casimere  ! — How  often 
have  the  thoughts  of  thee  served  to  amuse  these  moments 
of  expectation  ! — What  a  difference,  alas  ! — Dinner — it  is 
taken  away  as  soon  as  over,  and  we  regret  it  not ! — It 
returns  again  with  the  return  of  appetite. — The  beef  of 
to-morrow  will  succeed  to  the  mutton  of  to-day,  as  the 
mutton  of  to-day  succeeded  to  the  veal  of  yesterday. 
But  when  once  the  heart  has  been  occupied  by  a  beloved 
object,  in  vain  would  we  attempt  to  supply  the  chasm  by 
another.  How  easily  are  our  desires  transferred  from 
dish  to  dish  ! — Love  only,  dear,  delusive,  delightful  love; 
restrains  our  wandering  appetites,  and  confines  them  to 
a  particular  gratification  ! 

Post-horn  blows;  re-enter  LANDLADY. 

LAND.  Madam,  the  post-waggon  is  just  come  in  with 
only  a  single  gentlewoman. 

MAT.  Then  show  her  up — and  let  us  have  dinner 
instantly ;  [Landlady  going]  and  remember —  [after  a 
moment's  recollection,  and  with  great  earnestness]  — remem- 
ber the  toasted  cheese.  [Exit  Landlady. 

14 


210  POETKY    OF 

CECILIA  enters,  in  a  brown  cloth  riding-dress,  as  if  just 
alighted  from  the  post-waggon. 

MAT.  Madam,  you  seem  to  have  had  an  unpleasant 
journey,  if  I  may  judge  from  the  dust  on  your  riding- 
habit. 

CEC.  The  way  was  dusty,  madam,  but  the  weather 
was  delightful.  It  recalled  to  me  those  blissful  moments 
when  the  rays  of  desire  first  vibrated  through  my  soul. 

MAT.  [Aside.]  Thank  Heaven !  I  have  at  last  found 
a  heart  which  is  in  unison  with  my  own.  [To  Cecilia] 
— Yes,  I  understand  you — the  first  pulsation  of  senti- 
ment— the  silver  tones  upon  the  yet  unsounded  harp 

CEC.  The  dawn  of  life — when  this  blossom  [putting  her 
hand  upon  her  heart]  first  expanded  its  petals  to  the  pene- 
trating dart  of  love ! 

MAT.  Yes — the  time — the  golden  time,  when  the  first 
beams  of  the  morning  meet  and  embrace  one  another ! — 
The  blooming  blue  upon  the  yet  unplucked  plum  ! 

CEC.  Your  countenance  grows  animated,  my  dear 
madam. 

MAT.  And  yours  too  is  glowing  with  illumination. 

CEC.  I  had  long  been  looking  out  for  a  congenial 
spirit ! — my  heart  was  withered — but  the  beams  of  yours 
have  rekindled  it. 

MAT.  A  sudden  thought  strikes  me — Let  us  swear  an 
eternal  friendship. 

CEC.  Let  us  agree  to  live  together  ! 

MAT.  Willingly.  [With  rapidity  and  earnestness. 

CEC.  Let  us  embrace.  [They  embrace. 

MAT.  Yes ;  I  too  have  loved ! — you,  too,  like  me,  have 
been  forsaken. 

[Doubtingly,  and  as  if  with  a  desire  to  be  informed. 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  211 

CEC.  Too  true ! 

BOTH.  Ah  these  men  !  these  men ! 

LANDLADY  enters,  and  places  a  leg  of  mutton  on  the  table,  with  sour 
krout  and  prune  sauce;  then  a  small  dish  of  black  puddings — 
CECILIA  and  MATILDA  appear  to  take  no  notice  of  her. 

MAT.  Oh,  Casimere  ! 

CEC.  [Aside.]  Casimere  !  that  name  ! — Oh,  my  heart, 
how  it  is  distracted  with  anxiety. 

MAT.  Heavens  !  Madam,  you  turn  pale. 

CEC.  Nothing — a  slight  megrim — with  your  leave,  I 
will  retire — 

MAT.  I  will  attend  you. 

[Exeunt  MATILDA  and  CECILIA  ;  Manent  LANDLADY  and  WAITER, 
with  the  dinner  on  the  table. 

LAND.  Have  you  carried  the  dinner  to  the  prisoner  in 
the  vaults  of  the  abbey  ? 

WAITER.  Yes — Pease  soup,  as  usual — with  the  scrag 
end  of  a  neck  of  mutton.  The  emissary  of  the  Count 
was  here  again  this  morning,  and  offered  me  a  large  sum 
of  money  if  I  would  consent  to  poison  him. 

LAND.  Which  you  refused?  [With  hesitation  and  anxiety. 

WAITER.  Can  you  doubt  it  ?  [  With  indignation. 

LAND.  [Recovering  herself,  and  drawing  up  with  an  ex- 
pression of  dignity.]  The  conscience  of  a  poor  man  is  as 
valuable  to  him  as  that  of  a  prince  .  .  . 

WAITER.  It  ought  to  be  still  more  so,  in  proportion  as 
it  is  generally  more  pure. 

LAND.  Thou  say'st  truly,  Job. 

WAITER.  [With  enthusiasm.]  He  who  can  spurn  at 
wealth  when  proffered  as  the  price  of  crime,  is  greater 
than  a  prince. 


212  POETBY   OF 

Post-horn  blows. — Enter  CASIMERE  (in  a  travelling  dress,  a  light 
blue  great  coat  with  large  metal  buttons,  his  hair  in  a  long  queue, 
but  twisted  at  the  end ;  a  large  Kevenhuller  hat ;  a  cane  in  his 
hand). 

CAS.  Here,  Waiter,  pull  off  my  boots,  and  bring  me  a 
pair  of  slippers.  [Exit  Waiter.]  And  hark'ye,  my  lad, 
a  basin  of  water  [rubbing  his  hands]  and  a  bit  of  soap.  I 
have  not  washed  since  I  began  my  journey. 

WAITEE.  [Answering  from  behind  the  door]  Yes,  Sir. 

CAS.  Well,  Landlady,  what  company  are  we  to  have  ? 

LAND.  Only  two  gentlewomen,  Sir. — They  are  just 
stept  into  the  next  room — they  will  be  back  again  in  a 
minute. 

CAS.  Where  do  they  come  from? 

[All  this  while  the  WAITER  re-enters  with  the  basin  and  water ; 
CASIMERE  pulls  off  his  boots,  takes  a  napkin  from  the  table, 
and  washes  his  face  and  hands. 

LAND.  There  is  one  of  them,  I  think,  comes  from 
Nuremburgh. 

CAS.  [Aside.]  From  Nuremburgh !  [with  eagerness]  her 
name ! 

LAND.  Matilda. 

CAS.  [Aside]  How  does  this  idiot  woman  torment  me ! 
—What  else  ? 

LAND.  I  can't  recollect. 

CAS.  Oh,  agony  !  [In  a  paroxysm  of  agitation. 

WAITER.  See  here,  her  name  upon  the  travelling  trunk 
— Matilda  Pottingen. 

CAS.  Ecstasy  !  ecstasy  !  [Embracing  the  Waiter. 

LAND.  You  seem  to  be  acquainted  with  the  lady — shall 
I  call  her? 


THE    ANTI- JACOBIN.  213 

CAS.  Instantly — instantly — tell  her  her  loved,  her  long- 
lost — tell  her 

LAND.  Shall  I  tell  her  dinner  is  ready  ? 

CAS.  Do  so — and  in  the  meanwhile  I  will  look  after 
my  portmanteau.  [Exeunt  severally. 

Scene  changes  to  a  subterranean  vault  in  the  Abbey  of  Quedlinburgh, 
with  coffins,  'scutcheons,  death's  heads  and  crossbones — toads  and 
other  loathsome  reptiles  are  seen  traversing  the  obscurer  parts  of  the 
stage. — ROGERO  appears,  in  chains,  in  a  suit  of  rusty  armour,  with 
his  beard  grown,  and  a  cap  of  a  grotesque  form  upon  his  head  — 
beside  him  a  crock,  or  pitcher,  supposed  to  contain  his  daily  allow- 
ance of  sustenance. — A  long  silence,  during  which  the  wind  is 
heard  to  whistle  through  the  caverns. — ROGERO  rises,  and  comes 
slowly  forward,  with  his  arms  folded. 

BOG.  Eleven  years !  it  is  now  eleven  years  since  I  was 
first  immured  in  this  living  sepulchre — the  cruelty  of  a 
Minister — the  perfidy  of  a  Monk — yes,  Matilda !  for  thy 
sake — alive  amidst  the  dead — chained — coffined — con- 
fined— cut  off  from  the  converse  of  my  fellow-men.  Soft ! 
— what  have  we  here !  {stumbles  over  a  bundle  of  sticks.} 
This  cavern  is  so  dark  that  I  can  scarcely  distinguish  the 
objects  under  my  feet.  Oh — the  register  of  my  captivity. 
Let  me  see;  how  stands  the  account?  [Takes  up  the  sticks, 
and  turns  them  over  with  a  melancholy  air ;  then  stands  silent 
for  a  few  minutes,  as  if  absorbed  in  calculation.] — Eleven 
years  and  fifteen  days  ! — Hah  !  the  twenty-eighth  of 
August !  How  does  the  recollection  of  it  vibrate  on  my 
heart !  It  was  on  this  day  that  I  took  my  last  leave  of 
my  Matilda.  It  was  a  summer  evening;  her  melting 
hand  seemed  to  dissolve  in  mine,  as  I  prest  it  to  my 
bosom.  Some  demon  whispered  me  that  I  should  never 
see  her  more.  I  stood  gazing  on  the  hated  vehicle  which 


214  POETEY    OF 

was  conveying  her  away  for  ever.  The  tears  were  petri- 
fied under  my  eyelids.  My  heart  was  crystallized  with 
agony.  Anon — I  looked  along  the  road.  The  diligence 
seemed  to  diminish  every  instant ;  I  felt  my  heart  beat 
against  its  prison,  as  if  anxious  to  leap  out  and  overtake 
it.  My  soul  whirled  round  as  I  watched  the  rotation  of 
the  hinder  wheels.  A  long  trail  of  glory  followed  after 
her,  and  mingled  with  the  dust ;  it  was  the  emanation  of 
Divinity,  luminous  with  love  and  beauty,  like  the  splen- 
dour of  the  setting  sun ;  but  it  told  me  that  the  sun  of 
my  joys  was  sunk  for  ever.  Yes,  here  in  the  depths  of 
an  eternal  dungeon,  in  the  nursing  cradle  of  hell,  the 
suburbs  of  perdition,  in  a  nest  of  demons,  where  despair 
in  vain  sits  brooding  over  the  putrid  eggs  of  hope ;  where 
agony  wooes  the  embrace  of  death ;  where  patience,  be- 
side the  bottomless  pool  of  despondency,  sits  angling  for 
impossibilities.  Yet,  even  here,  to  behold  her,  to  embrace 
her !  Yes,  Matilda,  whether  in  this  dark  abode,  amidst 
toads  and  spiders,  or  in  a  royal  palace,  amidst  the  more 
loathsome  reptiles  of  a  court,  would  be  indifferent  to  me; 
angels  would  shower  down  their  hymns  of  gratulation 
upon  our  heads,  while  fiends  would  envy  the  eternity  of 

suffering  love Soft,  what  air  was  that  ?  it 

seemed  a  sound  of  more  than  human  warblings.  Again ! 
[listens  attentively  for  some  minutes.'}  Only  the  wind ;  it  is 
well,  however;  it  reminds  me  of  that  melancholy  air, 
which  has  so  often  solaced  the  hours  of  my  captivity. 
Let  me  see  whether  the  damps  of  this  dungeon  have  not 
yet  injured  my  guitar.  [Takes  his  guitar,  tunes  it,  and 
begins  the  folloiving  air,  with  a  full  accompaniment  of  violins 
from  the  orchestra. 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  215 

[Air,  Lanterna  Magica.] 
SONG. 

BY   KOOEKO.1 
I. 

Whene'er  with  haggard  eyes  I  view 
This  dungeon  that  I'm  rotting  in, 
I  think  of  those  companions  true 
Who  studied  with  me  at  the  U — 
— niversity  of  Gottingen — 
— niversity  of  Gottingen. 

[Weeps,  and  pulls  out  a  blue  kerchief,  with  which  he 
wipes  his  eyes;  gazing  tenderly  at  it,  he  proceeds — 

II. 
Sweet  kerchief,  check'd  with  heavenly  blue, 

Which  once  my  love  sat  knotting  in  ! — 
Alas  !  Matilda  then  was  true ! 
At  least  I  thought  so  at  the  U — 
— niversity  of  Gottingen — 
— niversity  of  Gottingen. 

[At  tlie  repetition  of  this  Hue  ROGERO  clanks  his 
chains  in  cadence. 

III. 
Barbs  !  Barbs  !  alas  !  how  swift  you  flew 

Her  neat  post-waggon  trotting  in ! 
Ye  bore  Matilda  from  my  view ; 
Forlorn  I  languish'd  at  the  U — 
— niversity  of  Gottingen — 
— niversity  of  Gottingen. 

IV. 

This  faded  form  !  this  pallid  hue  ! 
This  blood  my  veins  is  clotting  in, 


216  POETRY    OF 

My  years  are  many — they  were  few 
When  first  I  entered  at  the  U — 
— niversity  of  Gottingen — 
— niversity  of  Gottingen. 

v. 

There  first  for  thee  my  passion  grew, 
Sweet !  sweet  Matilda  Pottingen ! 
Thou  wast  the  daughter  of  my  tu — 
— tor,  law  professor  at  the  U — 
— niversity  of  Gottingen  — 
— niversity  of  Gottingen. 

VI. 

Sun,  moon,  and  thou  vain  world,  adieu, 

That  kings  and  priests  are  plotting  in  : 
Here  doomed  to  starve  on  water  gru — 
— el,*  never  shall  I  see  the  U — 
— niversity  of  Gottingen — 
— niversity  of  Gottingen. 

[During  the  last  stanza  EOGERO  dashes  his  head  re- 
peatedly against  the  walls  of  his  prison;  and, 
finally,  so  hard  as  to  produce  a  visible  contusion; 
he  then  throws  himself  on  the  floor  in  an  agony. 
The  curtain  drops;  the  music  still  continuing  to 
play  till  it  is  wholly  fallen. 

*  A  manifest  error,  since  it  appears  from  the  Waiter's  conver- 
sation (p.  211)  that  Rogero  was  not  doomed  to  starve  on  water- 
gruel,  but  on  pease-soup,  which  is  a  much  better  thing.  Pos- 
sibly the  length  of  Eogero's  imprisonment  had  impaired  his 
memory  ;  or  he  might  wish  to  make  things  appear  worse  than 
they  really  were ;  which  is  very  natural,  I  think,  in  such  a  case 
as  this  poor  unfortunate  gentleman's. — Printer's  Devil. 

[The  character  of  ROGERO  is  a  quiz  upon  SIR  ROBERT  ADAIR, 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  217 

who  received  his  education  at  Gottingen,  and  fell  in  love  with 
his  tutor's  daughter.  His  relative,  LORD  ALBEMARLE,  says  in 
his  Reminiscences:  "Throughout  life  my  kinsman  was  an  enthu- 
siastic admirer  of  the  fair  sex,  which  he  generally  '  loved,  not 
wisely,  but  too  well'".  He  married,  in  1805,  Mdlle.  Angelique 
Gabrielle,  daughter  of  the  Marquis  d'Hazincourt  and  the  Com- 
tesse  de  Champagne. 

AD  AIR  was  the  son  of  Mr.  Robert  Adair,  sergeant- surgeon  to 
K  George  III.,  by  his  wife  LADY  CAROLINE  KEPPEL,  daughter 
of  Win.  Anne,  second  Earl  of  Albemarle.  He  was  educated  at 
Westminster  School  and  Gottingen  University ;  called  to  the 
Bar,  but  never  practised.  He  contested  Camelford  in  1796 ; 
and  was  M.P.  for  Appleby,  1799-1802,  for  Camelford,  1802-1812. 
He  was  sent  by  Fox  as  Minister  Plenipotentiary  to  Vienna  in 
1806 ;  and  by  his  old  adversary  CANNING  to  Constantinople  in 
1808  ;  and  also  to  Berlin.  He  was  Ambassador  to  Constanti- 
nople, 1809-11,  and  to  Belgium,  1831-5.  He  was  a  facile  writer, 
and  wrote  several  spirited  pamphlets,  including  defences  of  his 
relatives,  Francis,  Duke  of  Bedford,  and  Admiral  Keppel,  Fox, 
and  other  Whigs.  He  contributed  to  the  Political  Eclogues  a 
poem  called  Margaret  Nicholson,  in  which  George  III.,  Pitt, 
Jenkinson,  &c.,  were  ridiculed,  and  the  Song  of  Scrutina  (on  the 
"  Westminster  Scrutiny  "),  in  the  style  of  Ossian,  in  the  Proba- 
tionary Odes  for  the  Laureateship.  He  was  the  author  also  of  an 
account  of  his  Mission  to  ilw  Court  of  Vienna;  and  his  Negotia- 
tions for  the  Peace  of  the  Dardanelles:  3  vols.,  8vo.  For  his  ser- 
vices in  the  latter  business  he  was  made  G.C.B.  He  was  born 
24th  May,  1763,  and  died  3rd  Oct.,  1855. 

There  is  a  curious  circumstance  connected  with  the  compo- 
sition of  this  song,  the  first  five  stanzas  of  which  were  written 
by  CANNING.  Having  been  accidentally  seen,  previous  to  its 
publication,  by  PITT,  who  was  cognisant  of  the  proceedings  of 
the  "  An ti- Jacobin  "  writers,  he  was  so  amused  with  it,  that  he 
took  up  a  pen  and  composed  the  last  stanza  on  the  spot. — ED.] 

[This  drama  was  produced  at  the  Haymarket  Theatre,  July 
26,  1811,  with  alterations  and  additions,  and  some  introductory 
matter,  which  contained  smart  hits  at  the  Quadrupeds,  which 
then  desecrated  the  stage  of  Covent  Garden  Theatre.  Listen 
performed  Rogero ;  Munden,  Casimere ;  Mrs.  Glover,  Matilda ; 
Mrs.  Gibbs,  Cecilia.  The  following  Prologue,  written  by  George 
Colman  the  younger,  in  imitation  of  Pope's  prologue  to  Goto, 
was  spoken  by  Elliston  : — 

To  lull  the  soul  by  spurious  strokes  of  art, 
To  warp  the  geniua,  and  mislead  the  heart ; 


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POETRY   OF 


To  make  mankind  revere  wives  gone  astray,* 

Love  pious  sons  who  rob  on  the  nighway  ;  t 

For  this  the  foreign  muses  trod  our  stage 

Commanding  German  schools  to  be  the  rage. 

Hail  to  such  schools  !    Oh,  VMS  false  feeling,  hail ! 

Thou  badst  non-natural  nature  to  prevail ; 

Through  thee,  soft  super-sentiment  arose, 

Musk  to  the  niind  like  civet  to  the  nose  ; 

Till  fainting  taste  (as  invalids  do  wrong), 

Snuffd  the  sick  perfume,  and  grew  weakly  strong. 

Dear  Johnny  Bull !  you  boast  much  resolution, 

With,  thanks  to  Heaven  !  a  glorious  Constitution : 

Your  taste,  recovered  half  from  foreign  quacks, 

Takes  airings,  now,  on  English  horses'  backs  ; 

While  every  modern  bard  may  raise  his  name, 

If  not  on  lasting  praise,  on  stable  fame. 

Think  that  to  Germans  you  have  given  no  check, 

Think  how  each  actor  hors'd  has  risk'd  his  neck  ; 

You've  shewn  them  favour :  Oh,  then,  once  more  shew  it 

To  this  night's  Anglo-German,  Horse-Play  Poet ! — ED.] 


Vide  The  Stranger. 


t  Lovers'  Vows. 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  219 


No.  XXXI. 

June  11,  1798. 

WE  have  received,  in  the  course  of  the  last  week, 
several  long,  and  to  say  the  truth,  dull  letters,  from 
unknown  hands,  reflecting  in  very  severe  terms  on  MR. 
HIGGINS,  for  having,  as  it  is  affirmed,  attempted  to  pass 
upon  the  world,  as  a  faithful  sample  of  the  productions 
of  the  German  theatre,  a  performance  no  way  resembling 
any  of  those  pieces  which  have  so  late  excited,  and 
which  bid  fair  to  engross,  the  admiration  of  the  British 
public. 

As  we  cannot  but  consider  ourselves  as  the  guardians 
of  MB.  HIGGINS'S  literary  reputation,  in  respect  to  every 
work  of  his  which  is  conveyed  to  the  world  through  the 
medium  of  our  paper  (though,  what  we  think  of  the 
danger  of  his  principles  we  have  already  sufficiently 
explained  for  ourselves,  and  have,  we  trust,  succeeded  in 
putting  our  readers  upon  their  guard  against  them) — we 
hold  ourselves  bound  not  only  to  justify  the  fidelity  of 
the  imitation,  but  (contrary  to  our  original  intention) 
to  give  a  further  specimen  of  it  in  our  present  number,  in 
order  to  bring  the  question  more  fairly  to  issue  between 
our  author  and  his  calumniators. 

In  the  first  place  we  are  to  observe,  that  MR.  HIGGINS 
professes  to  have  taken  his  notion  of  German  plays 
wholly  from  the  translations  which  have  appeared  in  our 
language.  If  they  are  totally  dissimilar  from  the  originals, 
Mr.  H.  may  undoubtedly  have  been  led  into  error ;  but 
the  fault  is  in  the  translators,  not  in  him.  That  he  does 
not  differ  widely  from  the  models  which  he  proposed  to 


220  POETRY    OF 

himself,  we  have  it  in  our  power  to  prove  satisfactorily, 
and  might  have  done  so  in  our  last  number,  by  subjoin- 
ing to  each  particular  passage  of  his  play  the  scene  in 
some  one  or  other  of  the  German  plays  which  he  had  in 
view  when  he  wrote  it.  These  parallel  passages  were 
faithfully  pointed  out  to  us  by  Mr.  H.  with  that  candour 
which  marks  his  character  ;  and  if  they  were  suppressed 
by  us  (as  in  truth  they  were),  on  our  heads  be  the  blame, 
whatever  it  may  be.  Little,  indeed,  did  we  think  of  the 
imputation  which  the  omission  would  bring  upon  Mr.  H., 
as  in  fact  our  principal  reason  for  it  was  the  apprehension 
that,  from  the  extreme  closeness  of  the  imitation  in  most 
instances,  he  would  lose  in  praise  for  invention  more  than 
he  would  gain  in  credit  for  fidelity. 

The  meeting  between  Matilda  and  Cecilia,  for  example, 
in  the  first  act  of  The  Rovers,  and  their  sudden  intimacy, 
has  been  censured  as  unnatural.  Be  it  so.  It  is  taken, 
almost  word  for  word,  from  Stella,  a  German  (or  professedly 
a  German)  piece  now  much  in  vogue;  from  which  also  the 
catastrophe  of  MB.  HIGGINS'S  play  is  in  part  borrowed, 
so  far  as  relates  to  the  agreement  to  which  the  ladies 
come,  as  the  reader  will  see  by  and  bye,  to  share  Casi- 
mere  between  them. 

The  dinner-scene  is  copied  partly  from,  the  published 
translation  of  The  Stranger,  and  partly  from  the  first 
scene  of  Stella.  The  song  of  Eogero,  with  which  the 
first  act  concludes,  is  admitted  on  all  hands  to  be  in  the 
very  first  taste;  and  if  no  German  original  is  to  be 
found  for  it,  so  much  the  worse  for  the  credit  of  German 
literature. 

An  objection  has  been  made  by  one  anonymous  letter- 
writer  to  the  names  of  Puddingfield  and  Beefington,  as 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  221 

little  likely  to  have  been  assigned  to  English  characters 
by  any  author  of  taste  or  discernment.  In  answer  to 
this  objection  we  have,  in  the  first  place,  to  admit,  that 
a  small,  and  we  hope  not  an  unwarrantable,  alteration 
has  been  made  by  us  since  the  MS.  has  been  in  our 
hands.  These  names  stood  originally  Puddincrantz  and 
Beefinstern,  which  sounded  to  our  ears  as  being  liable, 
especially  the  latter,  to  a  ridiculous  inflection — a  diffi- 
culty that  could  only  be  removed  by  furnishing  them 
with  English  terminations.  With  regard  to  the  more 
substantial  syllables  of  the  names,  our  author  proceeded, 
in  all  probability,  on  the  authority  of  Goldoni,  who, 
though  not  a  German,  is  an  Italian  writer  of  considerable 
reputation  ;  and  who,  having  heard  that  the  English 
were  distinguished  for  their  love  of  liberty  and  beef,  has 
judiciously  compounded  the  two  words  Runnymede  and 
Beef,  and  thereby  produced  an  English  nobleman,  whom 
he  styles  Loi-d  Munnybeef. 

To  dwell  no  longer  on  particular  passages,  the  best 
way  perhaps  of  explaining  the  whole  scope  and  view  of 
Mr.  H.'s  imitation  will  be  to  transcribe  the  short  sketch 
of  the  plot  which  that  gentleman  transmitted  to  us, 
together  with  his  drama,  and  which  it  is  perhaps  the 
more  necessary  to  give  at  length,  as,  the  limits  of  our 
paper  not  allowing  of  the  publication  of  the  whole  piece, 
some  general  knowledge  of  its  main  design  may  be 
acceptable  to  our  readers,  in  order  to  enable  them  to 
judge  of  the  several  extracts  which  we  lay  before  them. 

PLOT. 

Bogero,  son  of  the  late  minister  of  the  Count  of  Saxe  Wei- 
mar, having  while  he  was  at  college,  fallen  desperately  in  love 
with  Matilda  Pottingen,  daughter  of  his  tutor,  Doctor  Engel- 


222  POETRY   OF 

bertus  Pottingen,  Professor  of  Civil  Law;  and  Matilda  evidently 
returning  his  passion,  the  Doctor,  to  prevent  ill  consequences, 
sends  his  daughter  on  a  visit  to  her  aunt  in  Wetteravia,  where 
she  becomes  acquainted  with  Casimere,  a  Polish  Officer,  who 
happens  to  be  quartered  near  her  aunt's,  and  has  several  chil- 
dren by  him. 

Eoderic,  Count  of  Saxe  Weimar,  a  prince  of  a  tyrannical  and 
licentious  disposition,  has  for  his  Prime  Minister  and  favourite 
Gaspar,  a  crafty  villain,  who  had  risen  to  his  post  by  first  ruin- 
ing, and  then  putting  to  death,  Eogero's  father.  Gaspar, 
apprehensive  of  the  power  and  popularity  which  the  young 
Eogero  may  enjoy  at  his  return  to  Court,  seizes  the  occasion  of 
his  intrigue  with  Matilda  (of  which  he  is  apprized  officially  by 
Doctor  Pottingen)  to  procure  from  his  master  an  order  for  the 
recall  of  Eogero  from  college,  and  for  committing  him  to  the 
care  of  the  Prior  of  the  Abbey  of  Quedlinburgh,  a  priest, 
rapacious,  savage,  and  sensual,  and  devoted  to  Gaspar's  interests 
— sending  at  the  same  time  private  orders  to  the  Prior  to  con- 
fine him  in  a  dungeon. 

Here  Eogero  languishes  many  years.  His  daily  sustenance 
is  administered  to  him  through  a  grated  opening  at  the  top  of 
a  cavern,  by  the  landlady  of  the  Golden  Eagle  at  Weimar,  with 
whom  Gaspar  contracts,  in  the  prince's  name,  for  his  support ; 
intending,  and  more  than  once  endeavouring,  to  corrupt  the 
waiter  to  mingle  poison  with  the  food,  in  order  that  he  may  get 
rid  of  Eogero  for  ever. 

In  the  meantime,  Casimere,  having  been  called  away  from 
the  neighbourhood  of  Matilda's  residence  to  other  quarters, 
becomes  enamoured  of  and  marries  Cecilia,  by  whom  he  has 
a  family ;  and  whom  he  likewise  deserts  after  a  few  years'  co- 
habitation, on  pretence  of  business  which  calls  him  to  Kamt- 
schatka. 

Doctor  Pottingen,  now  grown  old  and  infirm,  and  feeling  the 
want  of  his  daughter's  society,  sends  young  Pottingen  in  search 
of  her,  with  strict  injunctions  not  to  return  without  her  ;  and 
to  bring  with  her  either  her  present  lover  Casimere,  or,  should 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  223 

that  not  be  possible,  Eogero  himself,  if  he  can  find  him ;  the 
Doctor  having  set  his  heart  upon  seeing  his  children  comfort- 
ably settled  before  his  death.  Matilda,  about  the  same  period, 
quits  her  aunt's  in  search  of  Casimere  ;  and  Cecilia,  having  been 
advertised  (by  an  anonymous  letter)  of  the  falsehood  of  his 
Kamtschatka  journey,  sets  out  in  the  post-waggon  on  a  similar 
pursuit. 

It  is  at  this  point  of  time  the  Play  opens — with  the  accidental 
meeting  of  Cecilia  and  Matilda  at  the  Inn  at  Weimar.  Casimere 
arrives  there  soon  after,  and  falls  in  first  with  Matilda,  and  then 
with  Cecilia.  Successive  eclaircissemcnts  take  place,  and  an 
arrangement  is  finally  made,  by  which  the  two  ladies  are  to  live 
jointly  with  Casimere. 

Young  Pottingen,  wearied  with  a  few  weeks'  search,  during 
which  he  has  not  been  able  to  find  either  of  the  objects  of  it, 
resolves  to  stop  at  Weimar,  and  wait  events  there.  It  so 
happens  that  he  takes  up  his  lodgings  in  the  same  house  with 
Puddingfield  and  Beefington,  two  English  noblemen,  whom  the 
tyranny  of  King  John  has  obliged  to  fly  from  their  country  ; 
and  who,  after  wandering  about  the  continent  for  some  time, 
have  fixed  their  residence  at  Weimar. 

The  news  of  the  signature  of  Magna  Charta  arriving,  de- 
termines Puddingfield  and  Beefington  to  return  to  England. 
Young  Pottingen  opens  his  case  to  them,  and  entreats  them  to 
stay  to  assist  him  in  the  object  of  his  search. — This  they  refuse  ; 
but  coming  to  the  Inn  where  they  are  to  set  off  for  Hamburgh, 
they  meet  Casimere,  from  whom  they  had  both  received  many 
civilities  in  Poland. 

Casimere,  by  this  time  tired  of  his  "  DOUBLE  ARRANGEMENT," 
and  having  learnt  from  the  waiter  that  Eogero  is  confined  in 
the  vaults  of  the  neighbouring  abbey  for  love,  resolves  to  attempt 
his  rescue,  and  to  make  over  Matilda  to  him  as  the  price  of  his 
deliverance.  He  communicates  his  scheme  to  Puddingfield  and 
Beefington,  who  agree  to  assist  him  ;  as  also  does  young  Pot- 
tingen. The  Waiter  of  the  Inn,  proving  to  be  a  Knight  Templar 
in  disguise,  is  appointed  leader  of  the  expedition.  A  band  of 


224  POETKY    OF 

Troubadours,  who  happen  to  be  returning  from  the  Crusades, 
and  a  company  of  Austrian  and  Prussian  Grenadiers  returning 
from  the  Seven  Years'  War,  are  engaged  as  troops. 

The  attack  on  the  Abbey  is  made  with  success.  The  Count 
of  Weimar  and  Gaspar,  who  are  feasting  with  the  Prior,  are 
seized  and  beheaded  in  the  refectory.  The  Prior  is  thrown  into 
the  dungeon  from  which  Kogero  is  rescued.  Matilda  and 
Cecilia  rush  in.  The  former  recognises  Rogero,  and  agrees  to 
live  with  him.  The  children  are  produced  on  all  sides— and 
young  Pottingen  is  commissioned  to  write  to  his  father,  the 
Doctor,  to  detail  the  joyful  events  which  have  taken  place,  and 
to  invite  him  to  Weimar  to  partake  of  the  general  felicity. 

THE  BOVEKS;  OE,  THE  DOUBLE 
AEEANGEMENT. 


Scene,  a  Room  in  an  ordinary  Lodging-house  at  Weimar — 
PUDDINGFIELD  and  BEEFiNGTON  discovered  sitting  at  a  small 
deal  table,  and  playing  at  All-fours — Young  POTTINGEN,  at 
another  table  in  the  comer  of  the  room,  with  a  pipe  in  his  mouth, 
and  a  Saxon  mug  of  a  singular  shape  beside  him,  which  he  re- 
peatedly applies  to  his  lips,  turning  back  his  head,  and  casting  his 
eyes  toivards  the  firmament — at  the  last  trial  he  holds  the  mug  for 
some  moments  in  a  directly  inverted  position  ;  then  replaces  it  on 
the  table  with  an  air  of  dejection,  and  gradually  sinks  into  a  pro- 
found slumber — the  pipe  falls  from  his  hand,  and  is  broken. 

BEEF.  I  beg. 

PUDD.  [Deals  three  cards  to  BEEFINGTON.]  Are  you 
satisfied  ? 

BEEF.  Enough  ;  what  have  you  ? 

PUDD.  High,  low,  and  the  game. 

BEEF.  D n!  'Tis  my  deal.  [Deals;  turns  up  a 

knave.]  One  for  his  heels  !  [Triumphantly. 

PUDD.  Is  king  highest  ? 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  225 

BEEF.  No.  [Sternly]  The  game  is  mine.  The  knave 
gives  it  me. 

PUDD.  Are  knaves  so  prosperous? 

BEEF.  Aye,  marry  are  they  in  this  world.  They  have 
the  game  in  their  hands.  Your  kings  are  but  noddies  *  to 
them. 

PUDD.  Ha  !  ha  !  ha !  Still  the  same  proud  spirit, 
Beefington,  which  procured  thee  thine  exile  from 
England. 

BEEF.  England  !  my  native  land  !  when  shall  I  revisit 
thee? 

[During  this  time  PUDDINGFIELD  deals,  and 
begins  to  arrange  his  hand. 

BEEF.  [Continues.]  Phoo,  hang  All-fours ;  what  are  they 
to  a  mind  ill  at  ease  ?  Can  they  cure  the  heartache  ? 
Can  they  soothe  banishment  ?  Can  they  lighten 
ignominy  ?  Can  All-fours  do  this  ?  0,  my  Puddingfield  ! 
thy  limber  and  lightsome  spirit  bounds  up  against  afflic- 
tion with  the  elasticity  of  a  well-bent  bow  ;  but  mine — 
0  !  mine — 

[Falls  into  an  agony,  and  sinks  back  in  his  chair.  Young 
POTTINGEN,  awakened  by  the  noise,  rises,  and  advances  with 
a  grave  demeanour  towards  BEEFINGTON  and  PUDDINGFIELD. 
The  former  begins  to  recover. 

*  This  is  an  excellent  joke  in  German  ;  the  point  and  spirit 
of  which  is  but  ill-Rendered  in  a  translation.  A  NODDY,  the 
reader  will  observe,  has  two  significations,  the  one  a  knave  at 
A  ll-fours,  the  other  a  fool  or  booby.  See  the  translation  by  Mr. 
Bender  of  Count  Benyowsky,  or  the  Conspiracy  of  Kamschatka,  a 
German  Tragi-Comi-Comi-Tragedy,  where  the  play  opens  with 
a  scene  of  a  game  at  chess  (from  which  the  whole  of  this  scene 
is  copied),  and  a  joke  of  the  same  point,  and  merriment  about 
pawns,  i.e.,  boors  being  a  match  for  kings. 

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226  POETRY    OF 

Y.  POT.  What  is  the  matter,  comrades,*  you  seem 
agitated.  Have  you  lost  or  won  ? 

BEEF.  Lost !     I  have  lost  my  country. 

Y.  POT.  And  I  my  sister.  I  came  hither  in  search  of  her. 

BEEF.  0,  England ! 

Y.  POT.  0,  Matilda ! 

BEEF.  Exiled  by  the  tyranny  of  an  usurper,  I  seek  the 
means  of  revenge,  and  of  restoration  to  my  country. 

Y.  POT.  Oppressed  by  the  tyranny  of  an  Abbot,  perse- 
cuted by  the  jealousy  of  a  Count,  the  betrothed  husband 
of  my  sister  languishes  in  a  loathsome  captivity ;  her 
lover  is  fled  no  one  knows  whither,  and  I,  her  brother, 
am  torn  from  my  parental  roof,  and  from  my  studies  in 
chirurgery,  to  seek  him  and  her,  I  know  not  where — to 
rescue  Eogero,  I  know  not  how.  Comrades,  your  counsel. 
My  search  fruitless — my  money  gone — my  baggage  stolen ! 
what  am  I  to  do  ?  In  yonder  Abbey — in  these  dark, 
dank  vaults,  there,  my  friends,  there  lies  Eogero — there 
Matilda's  heart. 

SCENE    II. 


WAITER.  Sir,  here  is  a  person  who  desires  to  speak 
with  you. 

BEEF.  [Goes  to  the  door  and  returns  with  a  letter,  which 
he  opens.  On  pending  it  his  countenance  becomes  illuminated, 
and  expands  prodigiously.]  Ah,  my  friend,  what  joy  ! 

[Turning  to  PUDDIXGFIELD. 

*  This  word  in  the  original  is  strictly  fellfiw-lodgers — "  Co- 
occupants  of  the  same  room  in  a  house  let  out  at  a  small  rent  by  the 
week".  There  is  no  single  word  in  English  which  expresses  so 
complicated  a  relation,  except  perhaps  the  cant  term  of  chum, 
formerly  in  use  in  our  Universities. 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  227 

PUDD.  What?  tell  me — let  your  Puddingfield  partake  it. 

BEEF.  See  here.  [Produces  a  printed  paper. 

PUDD.  What?  [With  impatience. 

BEEF.  [In  a.  significant  tone.]  A  newspaper ! 

PUDD.  Ah,  what  sayst  thou  ? — A  newspaper ! 

BEEF.  Yes,  Puddingfield,  and  see  here  [shows  it  par- 
tially], from  England. 

PUDD.  [With  extreme  earnestness.]     Its  name? 

BEEF.  The  Daily  Advertiser, 

PUDD.  Oh,  ecstasy ! 

BEEF.  [With  a  dignified  severity.]  Puddingfield,  calm 
yourself — repress  those  transports — remember  that  you 
are  a  man. 

PUDD.  [After  a  pause,  with  suppressed  emotion.']  Well,  I 
will  be — I  am  calm — yet  tell  me,  Beefington,  does  it 
contain  any  news  ? 

BEEF.  Glorious  news,  my  dear  Puddingfield — the 
Barons  are  victorious — King  John  has  been  defeated — 
Magna  Charta,  that  venerable  immemorial  inheritance 
of  Britons,  was  signed  last  Friday  was  three  weeks,  the 
third  of  July,  Old  Style. 

PUDD.  I  can  scarce  believe  my  ears — but  let  me  satisfy 
my  eyes — show  me  the  paragraph. 

BEEF.  Here  it  is,  just  above  the  advertisements. 

PUDD.  [Reads.']  "  The  great  demand  for  Packwood's 
Eazor  Straps  "- 

BEEF.  Pshaw  ! — what,  ever  blundering  ! — you  drive 
me  from  my  patience.  See  here,  at  the  head  of  the 
column. 

PUDD.  [Reads.'] 

"  A  hireling  print,  devoted  to  the  court, 
Has  dared  to  question  our  veracity 


228  POETRY   OF 

Eespecting  the  events  of  yesterday ; 
But  by  to-day's  accounts,  our  information 
Appears  to  have  been  perfectly  correct. 
The  Charter  of  our  Liberties  received 
The  royal  signature  at  five  o'clock, 
When  messengers  were  instantly  dispatched 
To  Cardinal  Pandulfo ;  and  their  majesties, 
After  partaking  of  a  cold  collation, 
Eeturned  to  Windsor." — I  am  satisfied. 
BEEF.    Yet  here  again — there  are  some  further  par- 
ticulars [turns  to  another  part  of  the  paper].     "Extract  of 
a  letter  from  Egham — My  dear  friend,  we  are  all  here  in 
high  spirits — the  interesting  event  which  took  place  this 
morning  at  Eunnymede,  in  the  neighbourhood  of  this 
town  " — 

PUDD.     Ah,    Eunnymede  !     enough  —  no     more  —  my 
doubts  are  vanished — then  are  we  free  indeed ! 

BEEF.  I  have,  besides,  a  letter  in  my  pocket  from  our 
friend,  the  immortal  Bacon,  who  has  been   appointed 
Chancellor.     Our  outlawry  is  reversed  ! — What  says  my 
friend — shall  we  return  by  the  next  packet  ? 
PUDD.  Instantly,  instantly  ! 
BOTH.  Liberty  !  Adelaide  !  revenge  ! 

[Exeunt — Young   PoTTiNGEN  following  and  leaving   his 
hat,  but   obviously  without  much   consciousness  of  the 
meaning  of  what  has  passed. 
Scene  changes  to  the  outside  of  the  Abbey. — A  Summer's  Evening ; 

Moonlight. 

Companies  of  Austrian  and  Prussian  Grenadiers  march  across  the 
stage  confusedly,  as  if  returning  from  the  Seven  Years'  War. — 
Shouts  and  martial  music. 

Tlie  Abbey  Gates  are  opened;  the  Monks  are  seen  passing  in  pro- 
cession, with  the  PRIOR  at  their  head;  the  choir  is  heard  chanting 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  229 

vespers. — After  which  a  pause ;  then  a  bell  is  heard,  as  if  ringing 
for  supper ;  soon  after,  a  noise  of  singing  and  jollity. 
Enter  from  the  Abbey,  pushed  out  of  the  gates  by  the  PORTER,  a 
TROUBADOUR,  with  a  bundle  under  his  cloak,  and  a  Lady  under 
his  arm  ;  TROUBADOUR  seems  much  in  liquor,  but  caresses  the 
FEMALE  MINSTREL. 

FEM.  MIN.  Trust  me,  Gieronimo,  thou  seemest  melan- 
choly. What  hast  thou  got  under  thy  cloak  ? 

TROU.  Pshaw!  women  will  be  inquiring.  Melancholy! 
not  I.  I  will  sing  thee  a  song,  and  the  subject  of  it  shall 
be  the  question — "What  have  I  got  under  my  cloak?" 
It  is  a  riddle,  Margaret — I  learnt  it  of  an  almanac- 
maker  at  Gotha— if  thou  guessest  it  after  the  first  stanza, 
thou  shalt  have  never  a  drop  for  thy  pains.  Hear  me — 
and,  d'ye  mark !  twirl  thy  thingumbob  while  I  sing. 
FEM.  MIN.  'Tis  a  pretty  tune,  and  hums  dolefully. 

[Plays  on  her  balalaika. 
TROU.     I  bear  a  secret  comfort  here,  * 

[Putting  his  hand  on  the  bundle. 
A  joy  I'll  ne'er  impart ; 
It  is  not  wine,  it  is  not  beer, 
But  it  consoles  my  heart. 

[*  The  above  song  is  a  parody  on  that  pathetic  one — given 
below — written  by  Sheridan,  and  introduced  into  Kotzebue's 
drama  of  The  Stranger,  to  be  overheard  by  the  latter.  It  was 
sung  by  Mrs.  Bland — as  Annetta — to  a  melody  by  the  Diichess 
of  Devonshire,  in  a  manner,  it  ia  said,  that  thrilled  every  heart. 

"  I  have  a  silent  sorrow  here, 

A  grief  I'll  ne'er  impart ; 
It  breathes  no  sigh,  it  sheds  no  tear, 

But  it  consumes  my  heart. 
This  cherish'd  woe,  this  lov'd  despair, 

My  lot  for  ever  be ; 
So  my  soul's  lord,  the  pangs  I  bear 

Be  never  known  by  thee  ! 


230  POETKY   OF 

FEM.  Mm.  [Interrupting  him.}  I'll  be  hang'd  if  you 
don't  mean  the  bottle  of  cherry-brandy  that  you  stole 
out  of  the  vaults  in  the  abbey  cellar. 

TBOU.  I  mean  !  —  Peace,  wench  ;  thou  disturbest  the 
current  of  my  feelings  — 

[FEM.  MIN.  attempts  to  lay  hold  on  the  buttle; 
TROUBADOUR  pushes  her  aside,  and  continues 
singing  without  interruption. 

This  cherry-bounce,  this  loved  noyau, 

My  drink  for  ever  be  ; 
But,  sweet  my  love,  thy  wish  forego  ; 

I'll  give  no  drop  to  thee  ! 

[Both  together.] 
TKOU.  fThisl 


F.  M. 


fThisl    ,         ,  (this  1,       -, 

I  That  i"  cnerry-";)ounce "}  |u  f  r  loved  noyau, 

(  Thv  i" drmk  ^or  ever  be  ' 

1-But,  sweet  my  love,-f  ih?  ™sh  J°reg°  ! 
\  J  (.  one  drop  bestow, 


TKOU. 
F.  M. 

THOU,  j  I       )  ,         .,     n  ,     (  me  ! 
F.M.  iNor;keePlfcallforithee! 


[Exeunt  struggling  fur  the  bottle,  but  without  anger 
or  animosity,  the  FEM.  MIN.  appearing  by  degrees 
to  obtain  a  superiority  in  the  contest. 

EXD   OF  ACT  II. 

"  And  when  pale  characters  of  death 

Shall  mark  this  alter'd  cheek ; 
When  my  poor  wasted  trembling  breath 

My  life's  last  hope  would  speak ; 
I  shall  not  raise  my  eyes  to  heaven, 

Nor  mercy  ask  for  me, 
My  soul  despairs  to  be  forgiv'n, 

Unpardon'd,  love,  by  thee  !  " — ED. 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  231 

ACT  THE  THIRD — contains  the  eclaircissernents  and 
final  arrangement  between  CASIMEBE,  MATILDA,  and 
CECILIA  ;  which  so  nearly  resemble  the  concluding  act 
of  Stella,  that  we  forbear  to  lay  it  before  our 
readers. 

ACT   IV. 

Scene,  the  Inn  door;  Diligence  drawn  up. — CASIMERE  appears  super- 
intending the  package  of  his  portmanteaus,  and  giving  directions  to 
the  PORTERS. 

Enter  BEEFIXGTON  and  PUDDINGFIELD. 

PUDD.  Well,  Coachey,  have  you  got  two  inside 
places  ? 

COACH.  Yes,  your  Honour. 

PUDD.  [seems  to  be  struck  'with  CASIMEBE'S  appearance. 
He  surveys  him  earnestly  without  paying  any  attention  to  the 
COACHMAN,  then  doubtingly  pronounces}  Casimere  ! 

CAS.  [turning  round  rapidly,  recognizes  PUDDINGFIELD, 
and  embraces  him.]  My  Puddingfield ! 

PUDD.  My  Casimere  ! 

CAS.  What,  Beefington  too !  [discovering  him]  — then  is 
my  joy  complete. 

BEEF.  Our  fellow-traveller,  as  it  seems! 

CAS.  Yes,  Beefington — but  wherefore  to  Hamburgh  ? 

BEEF.  Oh,  Casimere* — to  fly — to  fly — to  return — Eng- 
land— our  country — Magna  Charta — it  is  liberated — a 

*  See  Count  Benyowsky ;  where  Crustiew,  an  old  gentleman 
of  much  sagacity,  talks  the  following  nonsense  : 

Crustiew  [with  youthful  energy,  and  an  air  <>f  secrecy  and  c»nfi- 
dence].  "To  fly,  to  fly,  to  the  isles  of  Marian — the  island  of 
Tinian — a  terrestrial  paradise.  Free — free — a  mild  climate — a 
new-created  sun — wholesome  fruits — harmless  inhabitants — and 
liberty — tranquillity." 


232  POETJRY    OF 

new  aera — House  of   Commons — Crown   and   Anchor — 
Opposition — 

CAS.  What  a  contrast !  you  are  flying  to  liberty  and 
your  home — I,  driven  from  my  home  by  tyranny,  and 
exposed  to  domestic  slavery  in  a  foreign  country. 

BEEF.  How  domestic  slavery  ? 

CAS.  Too  true — two  wives—  [slowly,  and  ivith  a  dejected 
air — then  after  a  pause\ — you  knew  my  Cecilia  ? 

PUDD.  Yes,  five  years  ago. 

CAS.  Soon  after  that  period  I  went  upon  a  visit  to  a 
lady  in  Wetteravia — my  Matilda  was  under  her  protec- 
tion. Alighting  at  a  peasant's  cabin,  I  saw  her  on  a 
charitable  visit,  spreading  bread-and-butter  for  the 
children,  in  a  light-blue  riding-habit.  The  simplicity  of 
her  appearance — the  fineness  of  the  weather — all  con- 
spired to  interest  me — my  heart  moved  to  hers — as  if  by 
magnetic  sympathy.  We  wept,  embraced,  and  went 
home  together  :  she  became  the  mother  of  my  Pantalow- 
sky.  But  five  years  of  enjoyment  have  not  stifled  the 
reproaches  of  my  conscience — her  Rogero  is  languishing 
in  captivity — if  I  could  restore  her  to  him  ! 

BEEF.  Let  us  rescue  him. 

CAS.  Will  without  power  *  is  like  children  playing  at 
soldiers. 

BEEF.  Courage  without  power  f  is  like  a  consumptive 
running  footman. 

CAS.  Courage  without  power  is  a  contradiction.  J  Ten 
brave  men  might  set  all  Quedlinburgh  at  defiance. 

*  See  Count  Benyowsky,  as  before.        f  See  Count  BenyowsJcy. 

J  See  Count  Benyowsky  again ;  from  which  play  this  and  the 
preceding  references  are  taken  word  for  word.  We  acquit  the 
Germans  of  such  reprobate  silly  stuff.  It  must  be  the  trans- 
lator's. 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  233 

BEEF.  Ten  brave  men — but  where  are  they  to  be 
found  ? 

CAS.  I  will  tell  you — marked  you  the  waiter? 

BEEF.  The  waiter?  \doubtingly. 

CAS.  [in  a  confidential  tone].  No  waiter,  but  a  Knight 
Templar.  Eeturning  from  the  Crusade,  he  found  his 
Order  dissolved,  and  his  person  proscribed.  He  dis- 
sembled his  rank,  and  embraced  the  profession  of  a 
waiter.  I  have  made  sure  of  him  already.  There  are, 
besides,  an  Austrian,  and  a  Prussian  grenadier.  I  have 
made  them  abjure  their  national  enmity,  and  they  have 
sworn  to  fight  henceforth  in  the  cause  of  freedom.  These 
with  young  Pottingen,  the  waiter,  and  ourselves,  make 
seven— the  Troubadour,  with  his  two  attendant  minstrels, 
will  complete  the  ten. 

BEEF.  Now  then  for  the  execution.     [  With  enthusiasm. 

PUDD.  Yes,  my  boys — for  the  execution. 

[Clapping  them  on  the  back. 

WAITER.  But  hist !  we  are  observed. 

TKOU.  Let  us  by  a  song  conceal  our  purposes. 

RECITATIVE   ACCOMPANIED.* 

CAS.      Hist !  hist !  nor  let  the  airs  that  blow 

From  night's  cold  lungs  our  purpose  know  ! 

PUDD.  Let  Silence,  mother  of  the  dumb, 

BEEF.  Press  on  each  lip  her  palsied  thumb ! 

WAIT.  Let  Privacy,  allied  to  sin, 

That  loves  to  haunt  the  tranquil  inn — 

*  We  believe  this  song  to  be  copied,  with  a  small  variation  in 
metre  and  meaning,  from  a  song  in  Cuuid  Benyitwsky ;  or,  the 
Conspiracy  of  Kamschutka,  where  the  conspirators  join  in  a  chorus, 
for  fear  of  being  overheard. 


234  POETEY    OF 

GREN.  )  And  Conscience  start,  when  she  shall  view 
THOU.  /  The  mighty  deed  we  mean  to  do  ! 

GENERAL    CHORUS — Con  Spirito. 

Then  friendship  swear,  ye  faithful  bands, 

Swear  to  save  a  shackled  hero ! 
See  where  you  abbey  frowning  stands  ! 

Rescue,  rescue,  brave  Eogero  ! 
CAS.          Thrall'd  in  a  monkish  tyrant's  fetters 

Shall  great  Eogero  hopeless  lie  ? 
Y.  POT.  In  my  pocket  I  have  letters, 

Saying,  "Help  me,  or  I  die  !  " 

Allegro  Allegretto. 

CAS.  BEEF.  PUDD.  GREN.  \ 

TROU.    WAITER,    AND    POT.  I  Let  us  &?>  let  us  ^' 

..7       ,7  (    Let  us  help,  ere  he  die  ! 

with  enthusiasm.  ) 

[Exeunt  omnes,  waving  their  huts. 

Scene,  the  Abbey  Gate,  with  Ditches,  Drawbridges,  and  Spikes;  Time, 
about  an  hour  before  Sunrise.  —  The  conspirators  appear  as  if  in 
ambuscade,  whispering  and  consulting  tvgetlier,  in.  expectation  of 
the  signal  fur  attack. — The  WAITER  is  habited  as  a  Knight  Tem- 
plar, in  the  dress  of  his  Order,  with  the  Cross  on  his  breast,  and  the 
scallop  on  his  shoulder. — PUDDINGFIELD  and  BEEFINGTON  armed- 
with  blunderbusses  and  pocket-pistols;  the  GRENADIERS  in  tlieir 
proper  uniforms. — The  TROUBADOUR  with  his  attendant  minstrels 
bring  up  the  rear ;  martial  music :  the  conspirators  come  forward, 
and  present  themselves  before  tlie  Gate  of  the  Abbey. — Alarum; 
firing  of  pistols;  the  Convent  appear  in  Arms  upon  the  Walls; 
the  Drawbridge  is  let  down ;  a  body  of  chor-isters  and  lay-brothers 
attempt  a  sally,  but  are  beaten  buck,  and  the  Verger  killed. — The 
besieged  attempt  to  raise  the  Drawbridge;  PUDDINGFIELD  and 
BEEFINGTON  press  forward  with  alacrity,  throw  themselves  upon 
the  Drawbridge,  and  by  the  exertion  of  their  weight  preserve  it  in  a 
state  of  depression;  the  other  besiegers  join  them,  and  attempt  to 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  235 

force  the  entrance,  but  without  effect. — PUDDIXGFIELD  makes  the 
signal  fur  the  battering-ram. — Enter  QUINTUS  CUBTIUS  and 
MARCUS  CURIUS  DENTATUS  in  their  military  habits,  preceded  by 
the  Roman  Eagle;  tJie  rest  of  their  Legion  are  employed  in  bringing 
forward  a  battering-ram,  which  plays  for  a  few  minutes  to  slow 
time,  till  the  entrance  is  forced. — After  a  short  resistance,  tlie 
besiegers  rush  in  with  shouts  of  Victory. 

Scene  changes  to  the  interior  of  the  Abbey. — The  inhabitants  of  tlie 
Convent  are  seen  flying  in  all  directions. 

The  COUNT  OF  WEIMAR  and  the  PRIOR,  who  hud  been  found 
feasting  in  the  Refectory,  are  brought  in  manucltd.  The  COUNT 
appears  transported  with  rage,  and  gnaws  his  chains. — The  PRIOR 
remains  insensible,  as  if  stupefied  with  grief. — BEEFINGTON  takes 
the  keys  of  the  Dungeon,  which  are  hanging  at  the  PRIOR'S  girdle, 
and  makes  a  sign  for  them  both  to  be  led  away  into  confinement. — 
Exeunt  PRIOR  and  COUNT,  properly  gwirded. — The  rest  of  the 
conspirators  disperse  in  search  of  the  Dungeon  where  KOGERO  is 
confined. 

END   OF  ACT  THE   FOURTH. 


236  POETRY   OF 


No.    XXXII. 

June  18,  1798. 

WE  are  indebted  for  the  following  imitation  of  CATULLUS 
to  a  literary  correspondent.  Whether  it  will  remove  the 
doubts  we  formerly  expressed,  of  CITIZEN  MUSKEIN'S 
acquaintance  with  the  classics,  from  the  minds  of  onr 
readers,  we  cannot  pretend  to  say.  It  is  given  to  us  as 
a  faithful  translation  from  the  French — as  such,  we  pre- 
sent it  to  our  readers ;  premising  only,  that  though  the 
Citizen  Imitator  seems  to  have  Sans-culottized  the  original 
in  two  or  three  places,  yet  he  everywhere  expresses  him- 
self with  a  naiveti  and  truth  in  his  verse  that  we  seek  for 
in  vain  in  many  of  his  countrymen  who  have  recorded 
their  victories  and  defeats  in  very  vulgar  prose. 

AN   AFFECTIONATE  EFFUSION   OF   CITIZEN 
MUSKEIN   TO   HAVEE-DE-GEACE. 

FAIREST  of  cities,*  which  the  Seine 
Surveys  'twixt  Paris  and  the  main, 
Sweet  HAVRE  !  sweetest  HAVRE,  hail ! 
How  gladly  with  my  tatter'd  sail,t 
Yet  trembling  from  this  wild  adventure, 
Do  I  thy  friendly  harbour  enter  ! 


AD   SIRMIONEM   PENINSULAM. 

*  Peninsularum  Sirmio,  Insularumque, 
Ocelle  !  quascunque  in  liquentibus  stagnis, 
Marique  vasto  fert  uterque  Neptunus ; 

f  Quam  te  libenter,  quamque  laetus  inviso, 
Vix  mi  ipse  credens  Thyniam,  atque  Bithynos 


THT   ANTI-JACOBIN.  237 

Well — now  I've  leisure,  let  me  see 
What  boats  are  left  me ;  one,  two,  three — 
Bravo  !  the  better  half  remain ; 
And  all  my  heroes  are  not  slain. 
And  if  my  senses  don't  deceive, 
I  too  am  safe,* — yes,  I  believe, 
Without  a  wound  I  reach  thy  shore 
(For  I  have  felt  myself  all  o'er) ; 
I've  all  my  limbs,  and,  be  it  spoken 
With  honest  triumph,  no  bone  broken. 

How  pleasing  is  the  sweet  transition  f 
From  this  vile  Gun-boat  Expedition ; 
From  winds  and  waves,  and  wounds  and  scars, 
From  British  soldiers,  British  tars, 
To  his  own  house,  where,  free  from  danger, 
MUSKEIN  may  live  at  rack  and  manger ; 
May  stretch  his  limbs  in  his  own  cot,  J 
Thankful  he  has  not  gone  to  pot ; 
Nor  for  the  bubble  Glory  strive, 
But  bless  himself  that  he's  alive  ! 

HAVBE,  §  sweet  Havre  !  hail  again, 
0  !  bid  thy  sons  (a  frolic  train,  || 
Who  under  CHE'NIER  welcomed  in, 
With  dance  and  song,  the  Guillotine). 


Liquisse  campos,*  et  videre  te  in  tuto. 
f  O  quid  solutis  est  beatius  curis 

Cum  mens  onus  reponit,  ac  peregrine 

Lahore  fessi  venimus  larein  ad  nostrum. 
J  Desideratoque  acquiescimus  lecto  ? 

Hoc  est,  quod  umirn  est  pro  laborious  tantis. 
§  Salve  !  O  venusta  Sirmio  !  atque  hero  gaude  ; 

Gaudete  !  vosque  Lydise  lacus  undse ; 

Eidetell  quicqtiid  est  domi  cachinnorum  ! 


238  POETEY    OF 

In  long  procession  seek  the  strand  ; 

For  MUSKEIN  now  prepares  to  land, 

'Scaped,  Heav'n  knows  how,  from  that  cursed  crew 

That  haunt  the  rocks  of  SAINT  MARCOU. 


[TO   THE   PENINSULA   OF   SIEMIO. 

UPON  THE  RETURN  OF  THE  POET  TO  HIS  COUNTRY  HOUSE  THERE. 

Translated  from  CATULLUS. 
SIRMIO,  of  all  the  shores  the  gem, 

The  isles  where  circling  Neptune  strays; 

Whether  the  vast  and  boisterous  main 
Or  lake's  more  limpid  waves  they  stem, 

How  gladly  on  thy  waves  I  gaze ! 

How  blest  to  visit  thee  again  ! 
I  scarce  believe,  while  rapt  I  stand, 

That  I  have  left  the  Thynian  fields 

And  all  Bithynia  far  behind, 
And  safely  view  my  favourite  land. 

Oh  bliss,  when  care  dispersing  yields 

To  full  repose  the  placid  mind  ! 
Then  when  the  mind  its  load  lays  down ; 

When  we  regain,  all  hazards  past, 

And  with  long  ceaseless  travel  tired, 
Our  household  god  again  our  own ; 

And  press  in  tranquil  sleep  at  last 

The  well-known  bed  so  oft  desired — 
This  can  alone  atonement  make 

For  every  toil.     Hail,  Sirmio  sweet ! 

Be  gay,  thy  lord  hath  ceased  to  roam  ! 
Ye  laughing  waves  of  Lydia's  lake, 

Smile  all  around  !  thy  master  greet 

With  all  thy  smiles,  my  pleasant  home  ! — ED.] 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  239 


No.  XXXIII.  * 

June  25,  1798. 

AFTEB  the  splendid  account  of  BUONAPARTE'S  successes 
in  the  East,  which  our  readers  will  find  in  another  part 
of  this  paper,  f  and  which  they  will  peruse  with  equal 
wonder  and  apprehension,  it  is  some  consolation  to  us  to 
have  to  state,  not  only  from  authority,  but  in  verse,  that 
our  government  has  not  been  behindhand  with  that  of 
France;  but  that  aware  of  the  wise  and  enterprising 
spirit  of  the  enemy,  and  of  the  danger  which  might  arise 
to  our  distant  possessions  from  the  export  of  learning  and 
learned  men  being  entirely  in  their  hands,  ministers  have 
long  ago  determined  on  an  expedition  of  a  similar  nature, 
and  have  actually  embarked  at  Portsmouth  on  board  one 
of  the  East  India  Company's  ships  taken  up  for  that 
purpose  (the  ship  Capricorn,  Mr.  Thomas  Truman,  Com- 
mander), several  tons  of  savans,  the  growth  of  this 
country.  The  whole  was  conducted  with  the  utmost 
secrecy  and  dispatch,  and  it  was  not  till  we  were  favoured 
with  the  following  copy  of  a  letter  (obligingly  communi- 
cated to  us  by  the  Tunisian  gentleman  to  whom  it  is 
addressed)  that  we  had  any  suspicion  of  the  extent  and 
nature  of  the  design,  or  indeed  of  any  such  design  being 
in  contemplation. 

[  *  The  following  Letter  probably  alludes  to  the  Association  for 
promoting  the  Discovery  of  the  interior  parts  of  Africa,  of  which  Sir 
John  Sinclair  was  the  presiding  genius.  "The  result  of  their 
labours,"  says  Hugh  Murray,  in  his  Account  of  African  Dis- 
coveries, "  has  thrown  new  lustre  on  the  British  name,  and 
widely  extended  the  boundaries  of  human  knowledge." — ED.] 

[f  Buonaparte's  Bulletin. — ED.] 


240  POETBY   OF 

The  several  great  names  which  are  combined  to  render 
this  Expedition  the  most  surprising  and  splendid  ever 
undertaken,  could  not  indeed  have  been  spared  from  the 
country  to  which  they  are  an  ornament  for  any  other 
purpose  than  one  the  most  obviously  connected  with 
the  interests  of  the  empire,  and  the  most  widely  beneficial 
to  mankind. 

The  secrecy  with  which  they  have  been  withdrawn 
from  the  British  public,  without  being  so  much  as  missed 
or  enquired  after,  reflects  the  highest  honour  on  the 
planners  of  the  enterprise.  Even  the  celebrity  of  DOCTOR 
PABB  has  not  led  to  any  discovery  or  investigation  :  the 
silent  admirers  of  that  great  man  have  never  once 
thought  of  asking  what  was  become  of  him  ;  till  it  is  now 
all  at  once  come  to  light,  that  he  has  been  for  weeks  past 
on  shipboard,  the  brightest  star  in  the  bright  constella- 
tion of  talents  which  stud  the  quarter-deck  of  the  Capri- 
corn, Mr.  T.  Truman  (as  before  mentioned),  Commander. 

The  resignation  of  the  late  worthy  President  of  a 
certain  Agricultural  Board*  might  indeed  have  taught 
mankind  to  look  for  some  extraordinary  event  in  the 
world  of  science  and  adventure  ;  and  those  who  had  the 
good  fortune  to  see  the  deportation  from  his  house,  of  the 
several  wonderful  anomalies  which  had  for  years  formed 
its  most  distinguished  inmates, — the  stuffed  ram,  the 
dried  boar,  the  cow  with  three  horns,  and  other  fanciful 
productions  of  a  like  nature,  could  not  but  speculate  with 
some  degree  of  seriousness  on  the  purpose  of  their  re- 
moval, and  on  the  place  of  their  destination. 


[*  SIR  JOHN  SINCLAIR,  the  celebrated  author  of  the  History 
of  the  Public  Revenue,  the  Statistical  Account  of  Scotland,  and 
many  useful  agricultural  and  other  works. — ED.] 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  241 

It  now  appears  that  there  was  in  truth  no  light  object 
in  view.  They  were  destined,  with  the  rest  of  the  savans, 
on  whom  this  country  prides  itself  (and  long  may  it  have 
reason  to  indulge  the  honest  exultation),  to  undertake  a 
voyage  of  no  less  grandeur  than  peril ;  to  counteract  the 
designs  of  the  Directory,  and  to  frustrate  or  forestal  the 
conquests  of  Buonaparte. 

The  young  gentleman  who  writes  the  following  letter 
to  his  friend  in  London  is,  as  may  be  seen,  interpreter  to 
the  Expedition.  We  have  understood,  further,  that  he  is 
connected  with  the  young  man  who  writes  for  the 
Morning  Chronicle,  and  conducts  the  Critical,  Argumenta- 
tive, and  Geographical  departments.  Some  say  it  is  the 
young  man  himself,  who  has  assumed  a  feigned  name, 
and,  under  the  disguise  of  a  Turkish  dress  and  circum- 
cision, is  gone,  at  the  express  instigation  of  his  em- 
ployers, to  improve  himself  in  geographical  knowledge. 
We  have  our  doubts  upon  this  subject,  as  we  think  we 
recognise  the  style  of  this  deplorable  young  man  in  an 
article  of  last  week's  Morning  Chronicle,  which  we  have 
had  occasion  to  answer  in  a  preceding  column  of  our 
present  paper.  Be  that  as  it  may,  the  information  con- 
tained in  the  following  letter  may  be  depended  upon. 

We  cannot  take  leave  of  the  subject  without  remarking 
what  a  fine  contrast  and  companion  the  vessel  and  cargo 
described  in  the  following  poem  affords  \*ic\  to  the  "  NAVIS 
STULTIFERA,"  the  "  SHIPPE  OF  FOOLES  "  of  the  celebrated 
BARCLAY  ;  and  we  cannot  forbear  hoping  that  the  Anjem* 
of  an  author  of  the  same  name  may  furnish  a  hint  for  an 
account  of  this  stupendous  Expedition  in  a  learned 
language,  from  the  only  pen  which  in  modern  days  is 
capable  of  writing  Latin  with  a  purity  and  elegance 

16 


242  POETRY   OF 

worthy  of  so  exalted  a  theme,  and  that  the  author  of  a 
classical  preface*  may  become  the  writer  of  a  no  less 
celebrated  voyage. 

TKANSLATION  OF  A  LETTEE, 

(IN  ORIENTAL  CHARACTERS) 
FBOM  B  A  W  B  A-D  AB  A-  AD  U  L-PH  OOL  A,f 

DRAGOMAN  TO  THE  EXPEDITION, 

TO    NEEK-AWL-ABETCHID-KOOEZ, 

SECRETARY  TO  THE  TUNISIAN  EMBASSY. 
DEAR  NEEK-AWL, 

YOU'LL  rejoice,  that  at  length  I  am  able, 
To  date  these  few  lines  from  the  captain's  own  table. 
Mr.  Truman  himself,  of  his  proper  suggestion, 
Has  in  favour  of  science  decided  the  question  ; 
So  we  walk  the  main-deck,  and  are  mess'd  with  the 

captain, 
I  leave  you  to  judge  of  the  joys  we  are  wrapt  in. 

At  Spithead  they  embark'd  us,  how  precious  a  cargo  ! 
And  we  sail'd  before  day  to  escape  the  embargo. 
There  was    SHUCKBOROUGH,J   the  wonderful   mathema- 
tician ; 

And  DARWIN,  the  poet,  the  sage,  and  physician ; 
There  was  BEDDOES,  and  BRUIN,  and  GODWIN,  whose 
trust  is, 

[*  Dr.  Parr's  noted  Latin  Preface  to  his  edition  of  Bel- 
lendemis  de  Statu.  T.  De  Quincey,  in  his  famous  dissection  of 
Dr.  Parr  and  his  writings,  beseeches  the  "gentle  reader"  of 
Bellendenus  to  pronounce  the  penultimate  syllable  short,  and 
not  long,  as  is  usually  done. — ED.] 

[t  I.e.,  from  BOB  AD  AIR,  a  dull  fool,  to  NICHOLL  [Nicholls],  a 
wretched  goose. — ED.] 

[J  Sir  Geo.  Aug.  Wm.  Shuckburgh,  M.P.,  F.K.S.,  author  of 
papers  in  the  Phil.  Trans. — ED.] 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  243 

He  may  part  with  his  work  on  Political  Justice 
To  some  Iman  or  Bonze,  or  Judaical  Eabbin  ; 
So  with  huge  quarto  volumes  he  piles  up  the  cabin. 
There  was  great  DR.  PARR  whom  we  style  Bellendenus, 
The  Doctor  and  I  have  a  hammock  between  us. 
'Tis  a  little  unpleasant  thus  crowding  together, 
On  account  of  the  motion  and  heat  of  the  weather ; 
Two  souls  in  one  berth  they  oblige  us  to  cram, 
And  Sir  John*  will  insist  on  a  place  for  his  rani. 
Though  the  Doctor,  I  find,  is  determined  to  think 
'Tis  the  animal's  hide  that  occasions  the  stink ; 
In  spite  of  th'  experienced  opinion  of  Truman, 
Who  contends  that  the  scent  is  exclusively  human. 
But  BEDDOES  and  DARWIN  engage  to  repair 
This  slight  inconvenience  with  oxygen  air. 

Whither  bound?  (you  will  ask).      'Tis  a  question,  my 

friend, 

On  which  I  long  doubted ;  my  doubt's  at  an  end. 
To  Arabia  the  Stony,  Sabaea  the  gummy, 
To  the  land  where  each  man  that  you  meet  is  a  mummy ; 
To  the  mouths  of  the  Nile,  to  the  banks  of  Araxes, 
To  the  Red  and  the  Yellow,  the  White  and  the  Black  seas, 
With  telescopes,  globes,  and  a  quadrant  and  sextant, 
And  the  works  of  all  authors  whose  writings  are  extant ; 
With  surveys  and  plans,  topographical  maps, 
Theodolites,  watches,  spring-guns  and  steel-traps, 
Phials,  crucibles,  air-pumps,  electric  machinery, 
And  pencils  for  painting  the  natives  and  scenery. 
In  short,  we  are  sent  to  oppose  all  we  know 
To  the  knowledge  and  mischievous  arts  of  the  foe, 

[•  Sir  John  Sinclair. — ED.] 


244  POETEY   OF 

"Who,  though  placing  in  arms  a  well-grounded  reliance, 
Go  to  war  with  a  flying  artillery  of  science. 

The    French    savans,    it    seems,    recommended    this 

measure, 

With  a  view  to  replenish  the  national  treasure. 
First,  the  true  Rights  of  Man  they  will  preach  in  all 

places, 

But  chief  (when  'tis  found)  in  the  Egyptian  Oasis  : 
And  this  doctrine,  'tis  hoped,  in  a  very  few  weeks 
Will  persuade  the  wild  Arabs  to  murder  their  cheiks, 
And,  to  aid  the  Great  Nation's  beneficent  plans, 
Plunder  pyramids,  catacombs,  towns,  caravans, 
Then  enlist  under  Arcole's  gallant  commander, 
Who  will  conquer  the  world  like  his  model  ISKANDEK. 
His  army  each  day  growing  bolder  and  finer, 
With  the  Turcoman  tribes  he  subdues  Asia  Minor, 
Beats  Paul  and  his  Scythians,  his  journey  pursues 
Cross  the  Indus,  with  tribes  of  Armenians  and  Jews, 
And    Bucharians,    and    Affghans,    and    Persians,    and 

Tartars, — 

Chokes  the  wretched  Mogul  in  his  grandmother's  garters, 
And  will  hang  him  to  dry  in  the  Luxembourg  hall, 
'Midst  the  plunder  of  Carthage  and  spoils  of  Bengal. 

Such,  we  hear,  was  the  plan;  but  I  trust,  if  we  meet  'em, 
That  savant  to  savant,  our  cargo  will  beat  'em. 
Our  plan  of  proceeding  I'll  presently  tell ; — 
But  soft — I  am  call'd — I  must  bid  you  farewell : 
To  attend  on  our  savans  my  pen  I  resign, 
For,  it  seems,  that  they  duck  them  on  crossing  the  Line. 


We  deeply  regret  this  interruption  of  our  oriental  poet, 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  245 

and  the  more  so,  as  the  prose  letters  which  we  have  re- 
ceived from  a  less  learned  •  correspondent  do  not  enable 
us  to  explain  the  tactics  of  our  belligerent  philosophers 
so  distinctly  as  we  could  have  wished.  It  appears,  in 
general,  that  the  learned  Doctor  who  has  the  honour  of 
sharing  the  hammock  of  the  amiable  oriental,  trusted 
principally  to  his  superior  knowledge  in  the  Greek 
language,  by  means  of  which  he  hoped  to  entangle  his 
antagonists  in  inextricable  confusion.  DR.  DARWIN  pro- 
posed (as  might  be  expected)  his  celebrated  experiment 
of  the  Ice-island,1  which,  being  towed  on  the  coast  of 
Africa,  could  not  fail  of  spoiling  the  climate,  and  im- 
mediately terrifying  and  embarrassing  the  sailors  of 
Buonaparte's  fleet,  accustomed  to  the  mild  temperature 
and  gentle  gales  of  the  Mediterranean,  and  therefore  ill 
qualified  to  struggle  with  this  new  importation  of 
tempests.  DR.  BEDDOES  was  satisfied  with  the  project 
of  communicating  to  Buonaparte  a  consumption,  of  the 
same  nature  with  that  which  he  formerly  tried  on  him- 
self, but  superior  in  virulence,  and  therefore  calculated  to 
make  the  most  rapid  and  fatal  ravages  in  the  hectic  con- 
stitution of  the  Gallic  hero.  The  rest  of  the  plan  is  quite 
unintelligible,  excepting  a  hint  about  Sir  J.  S.'s  intention 
of  proceeding  with  his  ram  to  the  celebrated  Oasis,  and 
of  bringing  away,  for  the  convenience  of  the  Bank,  the 
treasures  contained  in  the  temple  of  Jupiter  Ammon. 


[l  The  following  are  Dr.  Darwin's  instructions  for  the  trans- 
portation of  Ire  Islands  : — 

"  There,  Nymphs  !  alight,  array  your  dazzling  powers, 
With  sudden  inarch  alarm  the  torpid  hours ; 
On  ice-built  isles  expand  a  thousand  sails, 
Hinge  the  strong  helms,  and  catch  the  frozen  gales. 
The  winged  rocks  to  feverish  climates  guide, 
Where  fainting  zephyrs  pant  upon  the  tide ; 


246  POETEY   OF 

Pass,  where  to  Ceuta  Calp^'s  thunder  roars, 
And  answering;  echoes  shake  the  kindred  shores  ; 
Pass,  where  with  palmy  plumes,  Canary  smiles, 
And  in  her  silver  girdle  binds  her  isles  ; 
Onward,  where  Niger's  dusky  Naiad  laves 
A  thousand  kingdoms  with  prolific  waves, 
Or  leads  o'er  golden  sands  her  threefold  train 
In  steamy  channels  to  the  fervid  main  ; 


And  cool  with  arctic  snows  the  tropic  year.1' 


[DR.  THOMAS  BEDDOES,  born  at  Shiffnal  in  1760,  was  a  scientific  Physician 
far  in  advance  of  his  age ;  his  Popular  Essay  on  Consumption,  1779,  his  tracts 
entitled  H>/rjeia,  1801,  &c.,  may  still  be  studied  with  profit.  He  paid  particular 
attention  to  the  medical  use  of  the  permanently  Elastic  Fluids,  and  avows  that 
as  "one  rash  experiment  on  a  patient  would  demolish  a  plan  on  which  the  hope 
of  relieving  mankind  from  much  of  their  misery  is  founded,"  he  made  prelimi- 
nary experiments  on  himself  in  the  case  of  Oxygen*  and  Consumption,  as 
alluded  to  in  the  text.  A  propos  of  the  artificial  distribution  of  disease,  it  may 
be  mentioned  that  in  The  Batchelor,  p.  189,  is  a  method  for  "discharging  the 
Plague  ". 

He  wrote  much  on  the  political  topics  of  the  day,  always  taking  the  liberal 
side,  and  attacking  PITT  with  great  virulence  and  eloquence.  The  principles  of 
the  French  Revolution  were  at  first  advocated  by  him  with  the  utmost 
enthusiasm,  but  he  was  soon  disgusted  by  the  excesses  committed.  He  was  a 
student  of  German  literature,  and  much  admired  by  Immanuel  Kant.  He  was 
also  an  intimate  friend  of  Darwin's,  whose  political  opinions  he  shared,  and 
whose  works  were  intrusted  to  his  revision  in  manuscript.  A  few  months  after 
the  publication  of  Darwin's  Botanic  Garden,  its  magnificent  imagery  and  har- 
monious versification  inspired  some  admirers  to  say  that  the  style  of  this  >york 
was  a  style  sui  generis,  and  that  it  defied  imitation.  Dr.  Beddoes  maintained 
an  opposite  opinion.  Much  as  he  admired  the  poem  in  question,  he  thought 
that  tne  Darwinian  structure  of  verse  might  be  imitated  by  a  writer  possessed 
of  inferior  poetical  powers,  and  in  a  few  days  he  produced  in  the  same  circle 
part  Of  the  manuscript  of  Alexander's  Expedition  to  the  Indian  Ocean  as  an  un- 
published work  of  the  author  of  the  Botanic  Garden.  The  deception  completely 
succeeded,  and  some  enthusiastic  admirers  of  the  latter  work  pointed  out  with 
triumph  "  certain  passages  as  proofs  of  the  position  that  the  author  in  his  hap- 
pier efforts  defied  imitation  ".  Beddoes's  success  was  the  more  extraordinary,  as 
in  the  "  Introduction  "  to  a  considerable  extract  from  his  poem  which  he  printed 
in  the  Annual  Anthology  for  1796,  he  states  that  he  had  never  before  written 
twice  as  many  lines  of  verse  as  the  composition  under  notice  consisted  of. 

As  BEDDOES'S  imitation  of  DARWIN  is  seldom  met  with,  it  may  not  be  out  of 
character  in  a  work  of  the  present  nature  to  give  a  specimen  of  it. 

AN  IMITATION  OF  DARWIN. 
"  Now  the  new  Lord  of  Persia's  wide  domain, 
Down  fierce  Hydaspes  seeks  the  Indian  main  ; 
High  on  the  leading  prow  the  Conqueror  stands, 
Eyes  purer  skies  and  marks  diverging  strands. 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  247 

A  thousand  sails  attendant  catch  the  wind, 

And  yet  a  thousand  press  the  wave  behind  ; 

Two  veteran  hosts,  outstretched  on  either  hand, 

Wide  wave  their  wings  and  sweep  the  trembling  land. 

Each  serried  phalanx  Terror  stalks  beside, 

And  shakes  o  er  crested  helms  his  blazing  pride ; 

While  Victory,  still  companion  of  his  way, 

Sounds  her  loud  trump  and  flaunts  her  banners  gay." 

Further  on,  the  Hero's  attention  is  attracted  to  the  surrounding  landscape, 
which  he  thus  apostrophizes  :— 

"  Ye  fields  for  ever  fair !  Thou  mighty  stream  ! 

Bright  regions  !  blessed  beyond  the  muse's  dream ! 

Thou  fruitful  womb  of  ever- teeming  earth  ! 

Ye  fostering  skies  that  rear  each  beauteous  birth  ! 

Trees,  that  aloft  uprear  your  stately  height, 

Whose  sombrous  branches  shed  a  noontide  night ! 

Groves,  that  for  ever  wear  the  smile  of  spring  ! 

Gay  birds  that  wave  the  many-tinted  wing  ! 

Of  reptiles,  fishes,  brutes,  stupendous  forms  ! 

And  ye,  of  nameless  insects  glittering  swarms  ! 

Sons  of  soft  toil,  whose  shuttle  beauty  throws, 

Whose  tints  the  Graces'  earnest  hands  dispose, 

Whose  guileless  bosom  Care  avoid  and  Crime, 

Gay  as  your  groves,  and  cloudless  as  your  clime  ! 

Primreval  piles,  that  rose  in  massive  pride, 

Ere  Western  Art  her  first  faint  efforts  tried  ! 

Ye  Brachmans  old,  whom  purer  aeras  bore, 

Ere  Western  Science  lisped  her  infant  lore  ! 

How  will  your  wonders  flush  the  Athenian  sage? 

How  ray  with  glory  my  historic  page?" 

In  a  letter  to  Hannah  More,  Horace  Walpole  says  :  "  The  poetry  is  most  ad- 
mirable ;  the  similes  beautiful,  fine,  and  sometimes  sublime  ;  the  author  is  a  great 
poet,  and  could  raise  the  passions,  and  possesses  all  the  requisites  of  the  art ".  In 
another  lively  epistle  to  the  Misses  Berry  (28th  April,  178!i),  he  says  :  "  I  send 
you  the  most  delicious  poem  upon  earth.  I  can  read  this  Second  Part  over  and 
over  again  for  ever  ;  for  though  it  is  so  excellent,  it  is  impossible  to  remember 
anything  HO  disjointed,  except  you  consider  it  as  a  collection  of  short  enchanting 

Eoems.     '  The  Triumph  of  Flora,'  beginning  at  the  fifty-ninth  line,  is  most 
eautifully  and  enchantingly  imagined,  and  the  twelve  verses  that  by  miracle 
describe  and  comprehend  the  creation  of  the  universe  out  of  chaos,  are,  in  my 
opinion,  the  most  sublime  passage  in  any  author,  or  in  any  of  the  few  languages 
with  which  I  am  acquainted."—  En.  J 

[Darwin  was  acquainted  with  Rousseau.  He  was  a  man  of  great  bodily  and 
intellectual  vigour,  irascible  and  imperious,  a  strong  advocate  of  temperance,  and 
for  many  years  an  almost  total  abstainer.  His  professional  fame  was  such  that 
George  III.  said  he  would  take  him  as  his  physician  if  he  would  come  to  London. 
He  formed  a  botanical  garden  at  Lichtield,  about  which  Miss  Seward  wrote 
some  verses  which  suggested  his  Botanic  Garden.  The  Lovn  of  the  Pluntt  had  a 
singular  success,  and  was  praised  in  a  joint  poem  by  Cowper  and  Hayley. 
It  was  translated  into  French,  Portuguese,  and  Italian.  Darwin  himself  is  said 
by  Edgeworth  to  have  admired  the  parody  (Monthly  Magazine,  June  and  Sept., 
1802,  p.  115).  Coleridge  (Biograjihia  Littraria,  1817,  p.  19)  speaks  of  the  impression 
which  it  made  even  upon  good  judges. 

In  the  Anti-Jacobin  Review,  vol.  i.  (1799),  pp.  718-721,  appear  some  Latin  verses 
[by  Ben.  Frere]  which  are  thus  introduced  :  "  Among  the  copies  of  verses  which 
are  annually  produced  as  a  public  exercise  called  TIUPOS.  at  Cambridge,  we 
have  selected  the  following  as  a  beautiful  composition.  The  subject  is  Dr. 
BEDDOES'S  Factitious  Air  applied  to  the  Cute  of  Consumptions. "—  ED.] 


248  POETRY    OF 


FOREIGN  INTELLIGENCE  EXTRAORDINARY.* 

The  Priority  of  Intelligence  which  has  ever  distinguished  OUR  PAPER  will, 
We  trust,  receive  additional  lustre  from  the  extraordinary  News  which  We  now 
lay  before  the  Public.  We  received  it  by  a  Neutral  Ship,  which  arrived  in  the 
River  last  night ;  and  feel  ourselves  much  indebted  to  the  attention  of  our 
Correspondent,  a  Currant  Merchant  at  Zante,  for  its  early  communication. 
Without  arrogating  to  ourselves  that  merit  which  is  (perhaps)  justly  our  due, 
We  think  ourselves  justified  in  asserting  that  it  is  not  only  the  earliest,  but, 
if  We  are  not  much  mistaken,  the  only  account  which  will  appear  in  the  Prints 
of  this  Day  respecting  the  Successes  of  BUONAPARTE. 


COPY  OF  A  LETTER  FROM  GENERAL  BUONAPARTES  TO  THE 
COMMANDANT  AT  ZANTfi. 

"  Atheiis,  18  Prairial. 
"CITIZEN  GENERAL, 

"  Victory  still  attends  us.    I  inclose  you  a  Copy  of  a  Letter  which  I 
have  this  day  written  to  the  Directory.    Health  and  Fraternity. 

"  BUONAPARTE." 

"  Head- Quarters,  Salamis,  18  Prairial. 
"  Citizens  directors, 

"  The  brave  Soldiers,  who  conferred  Liberty  on  Rome,  have  con- 
tinued to  deserve  well  of  their  Country.  Greece  has  joyfully  received  her 
Deliverers.  The  Tree  of  Liberty  is  planted  on  the  Pineus.  Thirty  thousand 
Janizaries,  the  Slaves  of  Despotism,  had  taken  possession  of  the  Isthmus  of 
Corinth.  Two  Demi-brigades  opened  us  a  passage.  After  ten  days'  fighting, 
we  have  driven  the  Ta.rk»  from  the  Mono..  The  Peloponnesus  is  now  free. 
Every  step  in  my  power  has  been  taken  to  revive  the  antient  spirit  of  Sparta. 
The  Inhabitants  of  that  celebrated  City,  seeing  Hack  Irolh  of  my  Troops,  and 
the  scarcity  of  specie  to  which  we  have  been  long  accustomed,  will,  I  doubt  not, 
soon  acquire  the  frugal  virtues  of  their  Ancestors.  As  a  proper  measure  of 
precaution,  I  have  removed  all  PITT'S  gold  froui  the  Country. 

"Off  this  Island  we  encountered  the  Fleet  of  the  SULTAN.  The  Ma- 
hometan Crescent  soon  fled  before  the  three-coloured  flag.  Nine  Sail  of  the 
Line  are  the  fruits  of  this  Victory.  The  CAPTAIN  PACHA'S  Ship,  a  second  rate, 
struck  to  a  National  Corvette.  My  Aide-de-Camp  will  present  you  with  the 
model  of  a  Trireme,  which  was  found  among  the  Archives  of  At/term.  Vessels  of 
this  description  draw  so  little  water,  that  our  Naval  Architects  may  perhaps 
think  them  more  eligible  than  Rafts,  for  the  conveyance  of  the  Army  tif  England. 
Liberty  will  be  sufficiently  avenged,  if  the  ruins  "of  a  Grecian  City  furnish  us 
with  the  means  of  transporting  the  Conquerors  of  Rome  to  Britain. 


"On  landing  at  this  Island,  I  participated  in  a  Scene  highly  interesting 
to  Humanity.  A  poor  Fisherman,  of  the  family  of  THEMISTOCLES,  attended  by 
his  Wife,  a  descendant  of  the  virtuous  PHRYNE,  fell  at  my  feet.  I  received  him 


[*  This  piece  has  not  hitherto  fonned  a  portion  of  the  editions  of  The  Poetry. 
—ED.] 


THE    ANTI- JACOBIN.  249 

with  the  Fraternal  embrace,  and  promised  him  the  protection  of  the  Republic, 
lie  invited  me  to  supper  at  his  Hut,  and  in  gratitude  to  his  Deliverer  presented 
me  with  a  memorable  Oyster  Shell,  inscribed  with  the  Name  of  his  illustrious 
Ancestor.  As  this  curious  piece  of  antiquity  may  be  of  service  to  some  of  the 
DIRECTORY,  I  have  inclosed  it  in  my  Dispatches.together  with  a  Marble  Tablet, 
containing  the  proper  form  for  pronouncing  the  Sentence  of  Ostracism  on 
Royalist  Athenians. 

"KLE'BER,  whom  I  had  ordered  to  Constantinople,  informs  me  that  the 
Capital  of  Turkey  has  proved  an  easy  conquest.  Santa- Sophia  has  been  con- 
verted into  a  Temple  of  Reason  ;  the  Seraglio  has  been  purified  by  Theo-Philnn- 
th,-nf>iit»,  and  the  liberated  Circassians  are  learning  from  our  Sailors  the  lessons 
of  Equality  and  Fraternity.  A  Detachment  has  been  sent  to  Troy,  for  the 

Cpose  of  organizing  the  Department  of  Mount  Ida.    The  Tomb  of  ACHILLES 
been  repaired,  and  the  Bust  of  BRISEIS  (which  formed  part  of  the  Pedestal) 
restored  to  its  original  state,  at  the  expense  of  the  Female  Citizen  BUONAPARTE". 

"  The  Division  of  the  Fleet  destined  for  Egypt  has  anchored  in  the  Port  of 
Alexandria.  BERTHIEK,  who  commands  this  Expedition,  informs  me  that  this 
Port  will  soon  be  restored  to  its  ancient  pre-eminence  ;  and  that  its  celebrated 
Pharos  will  soon  be  Ut  to  receive  the  Rei-erberes  which  have  been  sent  from  the 
Rue  St.  Honort. 

"BARAGUAY  D'HILLIERS,  with  the  Left  Wing  of  the  Army  of  Ey.upt,  has 
fixed  his  Head-quarters  at  Jerusalem.  He  is  charged  to  restore  the  Jews  to 
their  ancient  Rights.  Citizens  Jacob  Jacobs,  Simon  Levi,  and  Benjamin 
Solomons,  of  Amsterdam,  have  been  provisionally  appointed  Directors.  The 
Palace  of  Pontius  Pilate  is  re-building  for  their  residence.  All  the  vestiges  of 
Superstition  in  Palestine  have  been  carefully  destroyed. 

"  I  beg  you  will  ratify  a  grant  which  I  have  made  of  the  Temple  of  the  Si'.n 
at  Palmyra  to  a  Society  of  Illuminati  from  Bavaria..  They  may  be  of  service  in 
extending  our  future  conquests. 

"I  have  received  very  satisfactory  accounts  from  DESAIX,  who  had  been 
sent  by  BERTH] ER  with  a  Demi-brigade  into  the  interior  of  Africa.  That  fine 
Cou)itry  has  been  too  long  neglected  by  Europeans.  In  manners  and  civiliza- 
tion it  much  resembles  France,  and  will  soon  emulate  our  virtues.  Already 
does  the  Torrid  /one  glow  with  the  ardour  of  Freedom.  Already  has  the  Altar 
of  Liberty  been  reared  in  the  Caffrnrian  and  Equinoctial  Republic*.  Their 
regenerated  inhabitants  have  sworn  eternal  amity  to  us  at  a  Civic  Feast,  to 
which  a  detachment  of  our  Army  was  invited.  This  memorable  day  would 
have  terminated  with  the  utmost  harmony,  if  the  CAFFKAIUAN  Cpr.vciL  of 
ANCIENTS  had  not  devoured  the  greatest  part  of  General  Desaix's  Etat-Major 
for  their  supper.  I  hope  our  Ambassador  will  be  instructed  to  require  that 
Civic  Feasts  of  this  nature  be  omitted  for  the  future.  The  Directory  of  the 
Equinoctial  Republic  regret  that  the  scarcity  of  British  Cloth  in  Africa,  and  the 
great  heat  of  the  climate,  prevent  them  from  adopting  our  costume. 

"  We  hope  soon  to  liberate  the  Hottentots,  and  to  drive  the  perfidious 
English  from  the  extremities  of  Africa  and  of  Europe.  Asia,  too,  will  soon  be 
free.  The  three-coloured  flag  floats  on  the  summit  of  Caucasus  ;  the  Tiorine 
Republic  is  established  ;  the  (MI and  Trtins-Ku)>hrattanConi-fntionsn.renssnmbltn\; 
and  soon  shall  Arai>ia,  under  the  mild  influence  of  French  Principles,  resume 
her  ancient  appellation,  and  be  again  denominated  'the  HAPPY'. 

"  In  the  course  of  the  next  Decade  I  shall  sail  to  the  Canal  which  is  now- 
cutting  across  the  Jsthunis  of  Sue:.  The  Polytechnic  School  and  Corps  of 
Geographical  Engineers  are  employed  in  devising  means  for  conveying  my 
heavy  artillery  across  the  great  D'esert.  Soon  shall  India  hail  us  as  her 
Deliverers,  and  those  proud  Islanders,  the  Tyrants  of  Calcutta,  fall  before  the 
Hei'ois  of  Arcola. 

"  The  Members  of  the  National  Institute  who  accompanied  the  Squadron  to 
Egypt,  have  made  a  large  collection  of  Antiquities  for  the  use  of  the  Republic. 
Among  the  scattered  remains  of  the  Alexandrine  Library,  they  have  found  a 


250 

curious  Treatise,  in  Arabic,  respecting  Camels,  from  which  it  appears  that 
Human  Beings,  by  proper  treatment,  may,  like  those  useful  animals,  be  trained 
to  support  thirst  and  hunger  without  complaining.  Many  reams  of  papyrus 
have  been  collected,  as  it  is  thought  that  during  the  present  scarcity  of  linen 
and  old  rags  in  France,  it  may  answer  all  the  purposes  of  paper.  CLEOPATRA'S 
celebrated  Obelisk  has  been  shipped  on  board  the  Admiral's  Ship  L'Orient, 
cidevant  Sans  Culottes :  Another  man-of-war  has  been  freighted  with  the  Spkinx, 
which  our  Engineers  removed  from  Grand  Cairo,  and  which,  I  trust,  will  be 
thought  a  proper  ornament  for  the  Hall  of  Audience  of  the  Directory. — The 
cage  in  which  BAJAZET  was  confined,  has  been  long  preserved  at  Sassora  ;  it  will 
be  transmitted  to  Paris  as  a  proper  model  for  a  new  Cayenne  Diligence. — I  beg 
leave  to  present  to  the  Director  MERLIN,  a  very  curious  book,  bound  in  Morocco 
leather,  from  Algiers.  It  is  finely  illuminated  with  gold  ;  and  contains  lists  of 
the  various  fees  usually  received  by  Deys  and  their  Ministers  from  Foreign 
Ambassadors.  A  broken  Column  will  be  sent  from  Carthage.  It  records  the 
downfall  of  that  Commercial  City  ;  and  is  sufficiently  large  for  an  Inscription 
(if  the  Directory  should  think  proper  to  place  it  on  the  Banks  of  the  Thames),  to 
inform  posterity  that  it  marks  the  spot  where  London  once  stood. 

"  Health  and  Respect, 
"BUONAPARTE." 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  251 

No.  XXXIV. 

July  2,  1798. 

ODE  TO  A  JACOBIN. 
FKOM  SUCKLING'S  ODE  TO  A  LOVEK. 

i. 

UNCHEISTIAN  JACOBIN  whoever, 
If,  of  thy  God  thou  cherish  ever 
One  wavering  thought ;  if  e'er  HIS  word 
Has  from  one  crime  thy  soul  deterr'd, — 

Know  this, 
Thou  think'st  amiss ; 
And  to  think  true, 
Thou  must  renounce  HIM  all,  and  think  anew. 

ii. 

If,  startled  at  the  guillotine, 
Trembling  thou  touch  the  dread  machine ; 
If,  leading  sainted  Louis  to  it, 
Thy  steps  drew  back,  thy  heart  did  rue  it, — 

Know  this, 
Thou  think'st  amiss ; 
And  to  think  true, 
Must  rise  'bove  weak  remorse,  and  think  anew. 

in. 

If,  callous,  thou  dost  not  mistake, 
And  murder  for  mild  Mercy's  sake  ; 
And  think  thou  followest  Pity's  call, 
When  slaughtered  thousands  round  thee  fall, — 


252  POETRY    OF 

Know  this, 
Thou  think'st  amiss ; 
And  to  think  true, 
Must  conquer  prejudice,  and  think  anew. 

IV. 

If,  when  good  men  are  to  be  slain, 

Thou  hear'st  them  plead,  nor  plead  in  vain ; 

Or,  when  thou  answerest,  if  it  be 

With  one  jot  of  humanity, — 

Know  this, 
Thou  think'st  amiss ; 
And  to  think  true, 
Must  pardon  leave  to  fools,  and  think  anew. 

v. 

If,  when  all  kings,  priests,  nobles  hated, 
Lie  headless,  thy  revenge  is  sated, 
Nor  thirsts  to  load  the  reeking  block 
With  heads  from  thine  own  murd'rous  flock,- 

Know  this, 
Thou  think'st  amiss ; 
And  to  think  true, 
Thou  must  go  on  in  blood,  and  think  anew. 

VI. 

If,  thus,  by  love  of  executions, 
Thou  provest  thee  fit  for  revolutions ; 
Yet  one  achieved,  to  that  art  true, 
Nor  wouldst  begin  to  change  anew, — 

Know  this, 
Thou  think'st  amiss ; 
Deem,  to  think  true, 
All  constitutions  bad,  but  those  bran  new. 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  253 

[The  preceding  "  ODE  TO  A  JACOBIN  "  is  parodied  from  the  following 

ODE  TO  A  LOVEE, 

BY    SIB    JOHN    SUCKLING. 
I. 

Honest  lover  whosoever, 

If  in  all  thy  love  was  ever 

One  wav'ring  thought ;  if  e'er  thy  flame 

Were  not  still  even,  still  the  same, — 

Know  this, 
Thou  lov'st  amiss ; 
And  to  love  true, 
Thou  must  begin  again,  and  love  anew. 

ii. 

If,  when  she  appears  i"  th'  room, 
Thou  dost  not  quake,  and  art  struck  dumb ; 
And,  in  striving  this  to  cover, 
Dost  not  speak  thy  words  twice  over, — 

Know  this, 
Thou  lov'st  amiss ; 
And  to  love  true, 
Thou  must  begin  again,  and  love  anew. 

in. 

If,  fondly,  thou  dost  not  mistake, 
And  all  defects  for  graces  take, 
Persuad'st  thyself  that  jests  are  broken, 
When  she  has  little  or  nothing  spoken, — 

Know  this, 
Thou  lov'st  amiss ; 
And  to  love  true, 
Thou  must  begin  again,  and  love  anew. 


254  POETBY    OF 

IV. 

If,  when  thou  appear'st  to  be  within, 
Thou  let'st  not  men  ask  and  ask  again ; 
And  when  thou  answer'st,  if  it  be 
To  what  was  ask'd  thee,  properly, — 

Know  this, 
Thou  lov'st  amiss ; 
And  to  love  true, 
Thou  must  begin  again,  and  love  anew. 

v. 

If,  when  thy  stomach  calls  to  eat, 
Thou  cut'st  not  fingers  'stead  of  meat ; 
And  with  much  gazing  on  her  face, 
Dost  not  rise  hungry  from  the  place, — 

Know  this, 
Thou  lov'st  amiss ; 
And  to  love  true, 
Thou  must  begin  again,  and  love  anew. 

VI. 

If,  by  this  thou  dost  discover 
That  thou  art  no  perfect  lover ; 
And  desiring  to  love  true, 
Thou  dost  begin  to  love  anew, — 

Know  this, 
Thou  lov'st  amiss ; 
And  to  love  true, 
Thou  must  begin  again,  and  love  anew. — ED.] 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  255 


No.  XXXV. 

July  9,  1798. 

THE  following  popular  song  is  said  to  be  in  great  vogue 
among  the  loyal  troops  in  the  North  of  Ireland.  The 
air  and  the  turn  of  the  composition  are  highly  original. 
It  is  attributed  (as  our  correspondent  informs  us)  to  a 
fifer  in  the  Drumballyroney  Volunteers. 

BALLYNAHINCH.* 

A   NEW   SONG. 
I. 

A  CEETAIN  great  Statesman  f  whom  all  of  us  know, 
In  a  certain  assembly,  no  long  while  ago, 

[*  This  spirited  song  refers  to  LORD  MOIRA'S  motion  in  the 
Irish  House  of  Commons,  19th  of  February,  1798,  for  an 
address  to  the  Lord  Lieutenant,  complaining  of  the  excesses 
committed  by  the  government  authorities,  civil  and  military, 
and  recommending  that  conciliatory  measures  should  be  devised. 
He  took  occasion  to  praise  the  loyalty  of  his  own  tenants  at 
BALLYNAHINCH  ;  but,  unfortunately  for  him,  shortly  after,  an 
insurrection  broke  out  at  this  very  place,  and  a  large  number 
of  pikes  were  found  secreted  by  the  peasantry  in  his  own  woods. 
On  June  12,  General  Nugent  attacked  the  rebels,  5000  strong, 
commanded  by  Munro,  near  Ballynahinch,  and  routed  them 
with  great  slaughter.  This  victory  quelled  the  rebellion  in  the 
north.— ED.] 

[fThe  EARL  OF  MOIRA  was  a  gallant  soldier,  an  eloquent 
orator,  and  a  sagacious  as  well  as  honest  statesman.  Having 
early  in  life  achieved  much  reputation  for  skill  and  courage 
during  the  American  War,  and  afterwards  in  Flanders,  he  subse- 
quently turned  his  attention  to  politics,  particularly  those  of 
Ireland,  his  native  country,  which  drew  on  him  repeated 
attacks  from  the  Ministerial  press.  In  1812  he  was  appointed 
Governor- General  of  India,  and  created  MARQUIS  OP  HASTINGS. 
He  was  the  patron  of  THOMAS  MOORE  on  his  arrival  in  London. 
He  died  in  1825.— ED.] 


256  POETRY   OF 

Declared  from  this  maxim  he  never  would  flinch, 
"  That  no  town  was  so  loyal  as  Bally nahinch  ". 

n. 
The  great   statesman,  it  seems,  had  perused  all  their 

faces, 

And  been  mightily  struck  with  their  loyal  grimaces ; 
While  each  townsman  had  sung,  like  a  throstle  or  finch, 
"  We  are  all  of  us  loyal  at  Bally  nahinch  ". 

in. 
The    great    statesman    return'd    to   his    speeches    and 

readings  ; 

And  the  Ballynahinchers  resumed  their  proceedings ; 
They  had  most  of  them  sworn,   "  We'll  be  true  to  the 

Flinch,"  * 
So  loyal  a  town  was  this  Ballynahinch  ! 

IV. 

Determined  their  landlord's  fine  words  to  make  good, 
They  hid    pikes    in    his    haggard,    cut    staves    in  his 

wood; 

And  attack'd  the  king's  troops — the  assertion  to  clinch, 
That  no  town  is  so  loyal  as  Ballynahinch. 

v. 

0  !  had  we  but  trusted  the  rebels'  professions, 

Met  their  cannon  with  smiles,  and  their  pikes  with  con- 
cessions ; 

Tho'  they  still  took  an  ell  when  we  gave  them  an 
inch, 

They  would  all  have  been  loyal — like  Ballynahinch. 

*  Hibernice  pro  French. 


THE  ANTI-JACOBIN.  257 

VIBI  EKUDITI, 

Si  vobis  hocce  poematium,  de  navali  laude  Britanniae, 
paucis  annis  ante  conscriptum,  nuperrime  recensituin 
atque  emendatum,  forte  arrideat,  quaerite  in  proximis 
vestris  tabulis  locum  quendam  secretum  atque  securum, 
ubi  reposituiu  sua  sorte  perfruatur.  Quod  si  in  me  hanc 
gratiam  contuleritis,  devinctus  vobis  ero  et  astrictus 
beneficio. 

ETONENSIS. 

DE  NAVALI  LAUDE  BBITANNLE. 

SUCCESSU  si  freta  brevi,  fatisque  secundis, 
Europae  sub  pace  vetet  requiescere  gentes, 
Inque  dies  ruat  ulteriiis  furialibus  armis 
GALLIA,  tota  instans  a  sedibus  eruere  imis 
Fundamenta,  quibus  cultae  Commercia  vitae 
Firmant  se  subnixa ; — tuisne,  BRITANNIA,  regnis 
Ecquid  ab  boste  times ;  dum  te  tua  saxa  tuentur, 
Dum  pelagus  te  vorticibus  spumantibus  ambit  ? 

Tu  medio  stabilita  mari,  atque  ingentibus  undis 
Cincta  sedes ;  nee  tu  angusto,  Vulcania  tanquam 
Trinacris,  interclusa  sinu ;  nee  faucibus  arctis 
Septa  freti  brevis,  impositisque  coercita  claustris. 
Liberiora  Tibi  spatia,  et  porrecta  sine  ullo 
Limite  regna  patent  (quanto  neque  maxima  quondam 
Carthago,  aut  Phosnissa  Tyros,  ditissima  tellus 
Floruit  imperio)  confiniaque  ultima  mundi. 

Ergone  formidabis  adhuc,  ne  se  inferat  olim, 
Et  campis  i'.npun6  tuis  superingruat  hostis  ? 
Usque  adeone  parum  est,  quod  late  litora  cernas 
Praeruptisturrita  jugis,  protentaque  longo 
17 


258  POETRY    OF 

Circuitu,  et  tutos  passim  praebentia  portus  ? 
Prsesertim  australes  ad  aquas,  Damnoniaque  arva, 
Aut  ubi  Vecta  viret,  secessusque  insula  fidos 
Efficit  objectu  laterum  ;  saxosave  Dubris 
Velivolum  late  pelagus,  camposque  liquentes 
Aeria,  adversasque  aspectat  desuper  oras. 

Nee  levibus  sane  auguriis,  aut  omine  nullo 
Auguror  hinc  fore  perpetuum  per  secula  nonien  : 
Dum  nautis  tarn  firma  tuis,  tarn  prodiga  vitae 
Pectora,  inexpleta  succensa  cupidine  famae, 
Nee  turpi  flectenda  metu ;  dum  maxima  quercus, 
Majestate  excelsa  sua,  atque  ingentibus  urnbris, 
Erigitur,  vasto  nodosa  atque  aspera  trunco ; 
Silvarum  regina.     Haec  formidabilis  olim 
Noctem  inter  mediam  nimborum,  hyemesque  sonantes, 
Ardua  se  attollit  super  aequora ;  quam  neque  fluctus 
Spumosi  attenuat  furor,  aut  violentia  venti 
Frangere,  et  in  medio  potis  est  disrumpere  ponto. 

Viribus  his  innixa,  saloque  accincta  frementi, 
Tu  media  inter  bella  sedes ;  ignara  malorum, 
Quae  tolerant  obsessae  urbes,  cum  jam  hostica  clausas 
Fulminat  ad  portas  acies,  vallataque  circiim 
Castra  locat,  saevisque  aditus  circumsidet  armis. 

Talia  sunt  tibi  perpetuae  fundamina  famae, 
Ante  alias  diis  cara,  BRITANNIA  !  Praelia  cerno 
Inclyta,  perpetuos  testes  quid  maxima  victrix, 
Quid  possis  preclara  tuo,  maris  arbitra,  ponto. 

Haec  inter,  sanctas  aeterna  laude  calendas 
Servandas  recolo,  quibus  ilia,  inimane  minata 
Gentibus  excidium,  totum  grassata  per  orbem 
Ausaque  jam  imperiis  intactum  amplectier  aequor, 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  259 

Ilia  odiis  lymphata,  et  libertate  reeenti 
GALLIA,  disjectam  ferali  funere  classem 
Indoluit  devicta,  et  non  reparabile  vulnus. 
Tempore  quo  instructas  vidit  longo  ordine  puppes 
Rostrata  certare  acie,  et  concurrere  ad  arma, 
JEtheraque  impulsu  tremere,  Uxantisque  per  undas 
Lugubre  lumen  agi,  atque  rubentem  fulgere  fumum. 

Cerno  triumphatas  acies,  quo  tempore  IBERUM 
Disjectos  fastus,  lacerisque  aplustria  veils 
Horruit  Oceanus  : — quali  formidine  Gades 
Intremere,  ut  fracta  classem  se  mole  moventem 
Hospitium  petere,  et  portus  videre  relictos  ! 

Quid  referam,  nobis  quae  nuper  adorea  risit, 
Te  rursus  superante,  die  quo  decolor  ibat 
Sanguine  BELGARUM  Rhenus,  fluctusque  minores 
Volvebat,  frustra  indignans  polluta  cruore 
Ostia,  et  Angliaco  tremefactas  fulmine  rupes. 

Cerno  pias  aedes  procul,  et  regalia  quondam 
Atria,  caeruleis  quae  preterlabitur  undis 
Velivolus  Thamesis ;  materno  ubi  denique  nautas 
Excipis  amplexu,  virtus  quoscumque  virilis 
Per  pelagi  impulerit  discrimina,  quaelibet  ausos 
Pro  Patria.     Hie  rude  donantur,  dulcique  senescunt 
Hospitio  emeriti,  placidaque  quiete  potiti 
Vulnera  prseteritos  jactant  testantia  casus. 

Macte  ideo  decus  Oceani !  macte  omne  per  aevuin 
Victrix,  aequoreo  stabilita  BRITANNIA  regno ! 
Litoribusque  tuis  ne  propugnacula  tantiim 
Praesidio  fore,  nee  saxi  munimina  credas, 
Nee  tantiim  quae  rnille  acies  in  utrumque  parantur, 
Aut  patriam  tutari,  aut  non  superesse  cadenti ; 


260  POETRY   OF 

Invictoe  quantum  metuenda  tonitrua  CLASSIS, 
Angliacse  CLASSIS  ; — quse  majestate  verenda 
Ultrix,  inconcussa,  diii  dominabitur  orbi, 
Hostibus  invidiosa  tuis,  et  saepe  triumphis 
Nobilitata  novis,  pelagi  Eegina  subacti. 


TRANSLATION     OF    THE     PRECEDING    FOE  M.* 
By  the  late  A.  F.  "VVestmacott,  Esq. 

MEN  OF  LEARNING, 

If  by  chance  the  following  little  poem,  on  the  naval  glory 
of  Britain,  written  a  few  years  since,  and  very  lately  revised 
and  corrected,  please  you,  look  in  your  nearest  tablets  for  some 
private  and  secure  place,  where  it  may  be  placed  to  enjoy  its 
good  fortune.  Should  you  confer  on  me  this  favour,  I  shall  be 
bound  to  you  by  the  obligation  of  your  kindness. 

ETONIAN. 

ON  THE  NAVAL  GLOEY  OF  BRITAIN. 

If  buoy'd  by  short  success  and  fav'ring  chance, 

"Wide  Europe's  peace-destroyer,  restless  France, 

Each  day  still  onward  rush  with  fresh  alarms, 

And  threaten  ruin  with  her  furious  arms ; 

Euin  to  all  whereon  is  based  the  throne 

That  life's  sweet  charities  have  made  their  own ; 

Fearest  thou,  Britain,  for  thy  rock-girt  realm, 

With  seas  that  foam  around  and  whirlpools  to  o'erwhelm? 

Still  in  the  midst  of  ocean  firmly  placed, 
Circled  by  mighty  waves  thy  seat  is  based ! 
Not  by  a  strait  enclosed,  as  that  fair  soil 
Where  Fabled  Vulcan  plies  his  fiery  toil ; 
Within  no  narrow  bay  thy  waters  roll, 
No  yawning  gulf,  no  barrier  rocks  control. 
Wider  thy  space,  thy  realm  no  limit  knows, 
Not  Tyre  so  rich,  not  Tyrian  Carthage  rose. 

[*  A  quite  literal  translation  of  this  poem  would  be  out  of  the  question.  The 
fact  is,  the  sentiment  is  superior  to  the  execution.  CANNING  could  write  much 
better  if  he  chose.  He  might  wish  to  fabricate  an  ultra- patriotic  schoolboy, 
and  so  wrote  like  one  ;  but  it  is  certain  that  as  a  schoolboy  he  has  written  far 
better  things.  Either  he  wrote  in  a  hurry,  or  cooked  up  a  school  exercise  ;  the 
introduction  looks  like  it,  and  the  Latin  Prose  is  as  prosy  as  the  verse  is  com- 
mon-place.—A.  F.  W.] 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  261 

Wilt  thou  yet  fear,  lest  here  the  haughty  foe, 
Thy  fields  o'er-run,  and  still  unpunished  go ! 
Is  it  then  nought  to  view  th'  extended  strand 
O'er  which  stern  crags  like  beetling  turrets  stand, 
And  countless  ports  in  safe  embrace  expand  ? 
Look  to  thy  southern  waves,  to  Devon's  fields, 
Or  where  green  Vectis*  trusty  harbour  yields, 
Spreading  her  friendly  arms ;  or  Dover's  height 
Looks  on  the  sea  with  widespread  canvas  white, 
And,  perched  on  high,  the  liquid  plain  svirveys, 
And  adverse  cliffs  that  bound  the  wat'ry  ways. 

Not  by  vague  augury,  nor  omen  slight, 

I  view  thy  name  through  endless  ages  bright ; 

"While  thy  firm  crews  still  prodigal  of  life 

Insatiate  burn  for  fame  and  dare  the  strife. 

No  coward  fear  they  know,  while  stands  erect 

The  mighty  oak  with  boughs  umbrageous  decked; 

Majestic,  high,  with  knotted  trunk,  the  Queen 

Of  woods  !     Hereafter,  o'er  the  waters  seen 

'Mid  the  dim  midnight  of  the  sounding  storm 

Aloft  'twill  rear  the  terrors  of  its  form ; 

In  vain  the  roaring  surges  round  it  break, 

In  vain  the  winds  their  uncurbed  vengeance  wreak, 

Throned  on  such  pow'rs,  surrounded  by  the  sea, 

The  circling  waves  have  scarce  one  fear  for  thee. 

Thou  know'st  not  ills  that  towns  besieged  await, 

When  hostile  columns  thunder  at  the  gate ; 

Pitch  their  dread  camp  with  fatal  ramparts  round, 

And  with  fierce  arms  enclose  the  leaguered  ground. 

Such  is  to  thee  the  base  of  lasting  fame, 
To  Heav'n  Britannia  still  the  dearest  name  ! 
Gladly  I  view  the  glories  of  the  fight, 
Perpetual  witnesses  of  deathless  might, 
To  show,  bright  conqueress,  nations  yet  to  be, 
What  dared,  what  did  the  mistress  of  the  sea. 

'Mid  these  the  day  with  praise  eternal  blest 
Earns  memory's  tribute  most,  when,  direful  pest, 
Denouncing  ruin  to  the  world,  while  she 
Dared  grasp  the  sceptre  of  the  unconquer'd  sea, 
Wild  with  new  license,  mad  with  hatred's  heat 
France,  grieved  and  humbled,  viewed  her  ruined  fleet ! 

*  The  Isle  of  Wight. 


262  POETBY   OF 

Saw  how  all  hopes  one  fatal  wound  could  mar 

When  well-manned  squadrons  armed  their  prows  for  war ! 

When  the  sky  trembled,  and  o'er  Ushant's  tide 

Bed  glared  the  smoke  and  sickly  light  supplied. 

I  see  the  conquered  lines,  what  time  proud  Spain 
With  tattered  sailcloths  thickly  strewed  the  main ; 
How  Cadiz  quailed  when  back  the  shattered  fleet 
Sought,  in  the  port  it  left,  a  safe  retreat. 
Why  should  I  tell  what  smile  of  Vict'ry  beamed, 
When  Ehine's  fair  wave  with  Belgic  slaughter  gleamed  ; 
When  humbled  waters  tow'rds  the  sea  it  sped, 
Mad  that  its  mouths  with  native  blood  were  red, 
While  England's  thunders  rolled  above  its  rocky  bed  ? 

I  see  afar  the  domes  that  crown  the  tide, 
Where  Thames  uncounted  sails  in  triumph  glide : 
Here,  the  brave  souls  whom  manly  courage  drove 
Through  the  deep's  perils  in  a  holy  love 
Of  country,  find  in  thy  maternal  breast 
Their  toil  rewarded  and  their  daring  blest ! 
Dismissed  at  length  from  duty  nobly  done 
The}7  wane  in  quiet  'neath  the  noontide  sun, 
Eecal  the  dangers  of  their  byegone  wars, 
And  boast  appealing  to  their  manhood's  scars. 

On  in  thy  race  of  glory,  conqueress,  on  ! 
For  every  age  thy  sea-girt  realm  is  won  ! 
Think  not  the  fortress  which  thy  shores  uprear, 
Nor  thy  rock  bulwarks  shall  inspire  such  fear, 
Nor  the  brave  thousands  who  obey  thy  call, 
With  thee  to  rise,  or  not  survive  thy  fall, 
As  the  dread  thunders  of  that  untamed  host : 
Thy  fleet,  Britannia,  is  thy  proudest  boast ; 
Awful,  majestic,  firm ;  its  flag  unfurl'd 
Shall  long  wave  lordly  o'er  the  conquered  world ; 
Hateful  to  foes  for  triumphs  yet  to  be, 
The  rightful  Sovereign  of  the  subject  sea. — ED.] 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  263 

No.  XXXVL* 

MONDAY,  July  9,  1798. 
We  shall  miss  thee  ; 
But  yet  thou  shalt  have  freedom — 
— So  /  to  the  Elements 
Be  free,  and  fare  than  well. 

— THE  TEMPEST. 

WE  have  now  completed  our  Engagement  with  the 
Public.      The  ANTI-JACOBIN  has  been  conducted 
to  the  close  of  the  Session  in  strict  conformity  with  the 
Principles  upon  which  it  was  first  undertaken. 

Its  reception  with  the  Public  has  been  highly  favour- 
able : — it  certainly  has  been  out  of  proportion  to  any 
merit  which  has  appeared  in  the  execution  of  the  Work. 
This  is  not  said  in  the  mere  cant  of  Authorship.  We 
are  sensible  that  much  of  our  success  has  been  owing  to 
the  improved  state  of  the  Public  mind  ; — an  improve- 
ment existing  from  other  causes,  and  to  which,  if  We 
have  in  any  degree  contributed,  it  has  in  return  operated 
to  our  advantage,  by  a  re-action  more  than  equal  to  any 
impression  which  our  exertions  could  have  produced. 
There  is,  however,  one  species  of  merit  to  which  We  lay 
claim  without  hesitation  : — We  mean  that  of  the  Spirit 
and  Principles  upon  which  We  have  acted.  That  Spirit, 
We  trust  We  shall  leave  behind  us.  The  SPELL  of  Jaco- 
bin invulnerability  is  now  broken. t 

[*  This  valedictory  Address,  and  the  portion  entitled  FOREIGN 
INTELLIGENCE  which  follows  the  Poem,  have  never  hitherto 
formed  apart  of  editions  of  the  Poetry. — ED.] 

fWe  see  with  some  pleasure,  that  what  we  anticipated  is 
beginning  to  take  effect.  A  NEW  MAGAZINE  and  REVIEW  is 


264  POETRY    OF 

We  know  from  better  authority  than  that  of  CAMILLB 
JORDAN,  that  one  of  our  Daily  Papers  was,  early  in  the 
French  Revolution,  purchased  by  France,  and  devoted  to 
the  dissemination  of  tenets,  which,  at  the  period  to  which 
We  allude,  seemed  necessary  to  the  success  of  the  Ruling 
Party. 

For  some  time  matters  went  on  swimmingly.  The 
Editors  of  the  favoured  Prints  divided  their  time  and 
their  attention  between  London  and  Paris ;  and  the 
superiority  of  the  governing  Party  in  France,  over  its 
Opponents,  was  as  duly,  and  as  strenuously  maintained 
in  the  English  Papers,  as  in  the  "  Journal  du  Pkre  de 
C/iene,"  *  "  Journal  par  L?  Ami  du  People"  \  or  any  other 
Journal  that  issued  from  the  Presses  of  the  Jacobin 
Society. 

As  the  principles  of  the  Eevolution,  however,  acquired 
consistency  in  France,  the  struggle  between  the  Govern- 
ing Party  and  its  Opponents  became  an  object  of  less 
moment,  and  the  Jacobins  had  leisure,  as  they  long  had 
had  inclination,  to  turn  their  views  to  this  Country. 

A  State,  enjoying  under  a  Government  which  they  had 
proscribed  as  utterly  incapable  of  producing  either,  as 
much  freedom  and  happiness  as  comport  with  the  nature 
of  Man,  was  too  bitter  a  satire  on  the  decision  of  these 
new  SOLONS,  to  be  regarded  with  patience  ;  and  the  pens 
which  had  been  so  industriously  employed  in  celebrating 
the  plunderers  and  perturbators  of  France,  were  now 

already  advertised,  under  the  same  Name  which  We  had 
adopted,  and  professedly  on  the  same  Principles.  We  have  no 
knowledge  of  the  undertaking,  but  from  report,  which  speaks 
favourably  of  it ;  but  We  heartily  wish  this,  and  every  work  of 
a  similar  kind,  a  full  and  happy  success. 

*  Published  by  HUBERT.  t  Published  by  MAKAT. 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  265 

engaged  in  the  benevolent  design  of  recommending  their 
principles,  and  their  plans  of  ameliorating  the  condition 
of  the  human  race  by  Atheism  and  Plunder,  to  the  serious 
notice  of  the  People  of  Great  Britain. 

Affairs  seemed  rapidly  hastening  to  a  crisis  :  France 
saw  with  delight  the  numbers  seduced  by  the  sophistry 
of  her  Writers,  and  by  the  alluring  prospects  of  proscrip- 
tion and  plunder ;  and  her  Agents,  who  snuffed  the  scent 
of  blood  like  Vultures,  already  anticipated  the  Eevolution 
which  they  now  believed  inevitable  ;  when  the  Ministry, 
who  had  viewed  the  progress  of  the  evil  with  an  anxious 
but  unterrified  eye,  roused  themselves  into  unexampled 
energy,  and  called  on  the  Nation  to  rally  round  the  Con- 
stitution which  they  had  received  from  their  Forefathers. 

The  call  was  gloriously  answered  ;  — Thousands  and 
tens  of  thousands  sprung  forth  in  its  defence  ;  and  the 
barbarous  hordes  which  so  lately  threatened  its  destruc- 
tion, overawed  by  their  numbers,  shrunk  from  the  con- 
test without  a  struggle,  and  vanished  from  the  field. 

But  the  nature  of  a  Jacobin  is  restless.  His  hatred  of 
all  subordination  is  unbounded,  and  his  thirst  of  plunder 
and  blood  urgent  and  insatiable.  In  arms  he  found 
himself  infinitely  too  weak  to  obtain  his  purpose  ;  he 
must,  therefore,  have  recourse  again  to  artifice  ;  and  by 
fallacies  and  lies,  endeavoured  to  subvert  and  betray  the 
judgment  of  those  he  could  not  openly  hope  to  subdue. 

For  this  purpose,  the  Press  was  engaged,  and  almost 
monopolized  in  all  its  branches :  Eeviews,  Eegisters, 
Monthly  Magazines,  and  Morning  and  Evening  Prints, 
sprung  forth  in  abundance. 

Of  these  last  (the  only  Publications  with  which  We 
have  any  immediate  concern),  it  is  not  too  much  to  say, 


266  POETBY    OF 

that  they  have  laboured  in  the  cause  of  infamy,  with  a 
perseverance  which  no  sense  of  shame  could  repress,  and 
no  dread  of  punishment  overcome.  The  objects  committed 
to  their  charge  were  multifarious.  They  were  to  revile 
all  Eeligions,  but  particularly  the  Christian,  whose 
DIVINE  FOUNDER  was  to  be  blasphemously  compared  to 
Bacchus,  and  represented  as  equally  ideal,  or,  if  real, 
more  bestial  and  besotted  !  They  were  to  magnify  the 
power  of  France  on  all  occasions  ;  to  deny  her  murders ; 
to  palliate  her  robberies  ;  to  suppress  all  mention  of  her 
miseries,  and  to  hold  her  forth  to  the  unenlightened 
Englishman  as  the  mirror  of  justice,  and  truth,  and 
generosity,  and  meekness,  and  humanity,  and  modera- 
tion, and  tender  forbearance  : — and,  on  the  other  hand, 
they  were  to  depreciate  the  spirit,  and  the  courage,  and 
the  resources  of  England :  they  were  to  impede,  if 
possible,  and  if  not,  to  ridicule  and  revile,  every  measure 
which  the  honour,  the  prosperity,  or  the  safety  of  the 
Country  might  imperiously  require  ;  they  were  to  repre- 
sent the  Government  as  insidiously  aiming  to  enslave  the 
Nation,  by  every  attempt  to  maintain  its  Independence  ; 
and  the  majority  of  both  Houses,  the  great  body  of  Pro- 
prietors, as  anxious  to  scatter  and  confound  that  wealth, 
which  their  Patrons  alone,  the  respectable  sweepings  of 
Craven- House,  and  the  Croicn  and  Anchor  Tavern,  were 
solicitous  to  augment  and  preserve. 

These,  our  readers  will  allow,  were  no  common  objects, 
and  if  they  have  looked  into  the  Morning  Chronicle,  Morn- 
ing Post,  and  Courier  Journals  to  which  our  attention 
has  been  chiefly  directed,  they  must  have  seen  that  their 
attainment  was  sought  by  no  common  means  ;  by  an 
invariable  course  of  Falsehood  and  Misrepresentation — 


THE   ANTI- JACOBIN.  267 

such,  at  least,  was  our  idea  on  the  first  perusal  of  these 
Papers,  an  idea  which  every  succeeding  one  served  to 
strengthen  and  confirm. 

To  detect  and  expose  this  Falsehood,  and  to  correct 
this  Misrepresentation,  became  at  length  an  object  of 
indispensable  necessity  :  a  variety  of  applications  of  the 
most  malignant  nature  had  obtained  currency  and  credit, 
from  the  unblushing  impudence  with  which  they  were 
first  obtruded  on  the  Public  by  the  Agents  of  Sedition, 
and  the  apathy  with  which  they  were  suffered  to  pass 
uncontradicted  by  those  who  despised  them  for  their 
atrocity,  or  ridiculed  them  for  their  folly  : — these  were 
unfortunately  operating  on  the  less  enlightened  part  of 
the  Nation  ;  and  it  was  from  a  full  conviction  of  the 
pernicious  effects  they  were  calculated  to  produce,  that 
we  finally  determined  to  step  forth  (after  patiently 
waiting  to  see  whether  the  business  would  not  be 
taken  up  by  abler  hands),  and  to  oppose  such  anti- 
dotes to  the  evil,  as  a  regard  for  truth,  and  a  sincere 
love  and  veneration  for  the  Constitution  under  which 
wre  have  flourished  for  ages,  could  supply. 

How  we  have  succeeded  must  be  left  to  the  judgment 
of  the  Public.  If  we  might  venture,  indeed,  to  conjecture 
from  the  support  which  we  have  experienced,  the  result 
would  be  flattering  in  an  unusual  degree.  Three  com- 
plete Editions  of  our  Paper  (a  circumstance,  we  believe, 
as  yet  without  a  precedent)  have  been  disposed  of,  and 
the  demand  for  them  still  increases. 

But  the  motives  of  Profit,  as  will  readily,  we  believe, 
be  granted  to  us,  have  little  influence  on  our  minds  :  we 
contemplate  the  extensive  circulation  of  our  Paper  with 
pleasure,  solely  from  the  consideration  of  the  VAST 


268  POETEY    OF 

NUMBERS  of  our  Countrymen  whom  we  have  fortified 
by  our  animadversions  against  the  profligate  attacks  of 
the  Agents  of  Sedition,  whether  furnished  by  the  Whig 
Club,  the  Corresponding  Society,  or  the  Directory  of  France. 

Calculation  was  not  originally  our  delight.  Nor  was  it 
till  after  we  saw  the  wonderful  effects  which  it  produced 
in  the  pages  of  the  Jacobinical  Arithmeticians  that  we 
were  tempted  to  adopt  it.  Our  first  Essay,  however, 
was  crowned  with  the  most  complete  success.  In  our 
Seventh  Number,  we  gave  (still  following  the  laudable 
example  of  the  Jacobins,  who,  when  a  Ship  is  to  be 
fitted  out,  or  a  Regiment  raised,  for  the  purpose  of 
defending  our  Country  from  an  insolent  and  barbarous 
foe,  nicely  calculate  how  many  idle  mouths  might  be 
fed  by  the  sums  required) — We  gave,  we  say,  as  accurate 
a  statement  as  we  could  form,  of  the  number  of  People 
that  might  be  supplied  with  wholesome  food  for  one  day, 
by  the  SURCHAEGE  levied  on  the  DUKE  OF  BEDFORD — a 
statement  which,  we  are  happy  to  add,  placed  the 
matter  in  so  clear  a  light  that  we  have  since  had  no 
occasion  to  repeat  it. 

Our  Readers  will  not  now  be  surprised  if  we  again  have 
recourse  to  Calculation  to  prove  the  advantages  which  (we 
love  to  flatter  ourselves)  have  been  derived  from  our  Paper. 
Our  Sale  (to  say  nothing  of  the  new  Editions  which  have 
been  disposed  of)  has  regularly  amounted  to  Two  Thousand 
Five  Hundred  a  week  ;  on  an  average  of  several  Papers, 
we  find  the  Lies  which  have  been  detected  to  amount  to 
six,  and  the  Misrepresentations  and  Mistakes  to  an  equal 
number.  This  furnishes  a  total  of  twelve,  which,  multi- 
plied by  thirty-five,  the  number  of  the  last  ANTI-JACOBIN, 
gives  a  total  oifour  hundred  and  twenty. 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  269 

If  we  now  take  the  number  of  Subscribers  (2500)  and 
multiply  them  by  seven,  a  number  of  which  every  one's 
family  may  be  reasonably  supposed  to  consist,  we  shall 
have  a  product  of  17,500 ;  but  as  many  of  these  have 
made  a  practice,  which  we  highly  approve,  and  cannot 
too  earnestly  recommend,  of  lending  our  Papers  to  their 
poorer  Neighbours,  We  must  make  our  addition  to  the 
sum  which  We  evidently  take  too  low  at  32,500.  We 
have  thus  an  aggregate  of  50,000  People,  a  most  re- 
spectable minority  of  the  Eeaders  of  the  whole  Kingdom, 
who  have  been  put  effectually  on  their  guard,  by  our 
humble  though  earnest  endeavours,  against  the  artifices 
of  the  seditious,  and  the  more  open  attacks  of  the  pro- 
fligate and  abandoned  Foes  of  their  Constitution,  their 
Country,  and  their  God. 

Further,  if  we  multiply  50,000,  the  number  of  Eeaders, 
by  420,  the  exact  number  of  Falsehoods  detected — say  500 
— for  We  ought  to  take  in  bye-blows,  and  odd  refutations 
in  notes,  &c. — the  total  of  Twenty-five  Millions  will  re- 
present the  aggregate  of  Falsehood  which  We  have  sent 
out  of  the  World. 

We  have  more  than  once  repeated  that  we  entered 
upon  this  part  of  our  task,  not  from  any  vain  hope  of 
convincing  the  Writers  themselves.  We  knew  this  to 
be  impossible ;  the  forehead  of  a  Jacobin,  like  the  shield 
of  AJAX,  is  formed  of  seven  bull-hides,  and  utterly  in- 
capable of  any  impression  of  shame  or  remorse — but  we 
are  convinced  that  we  have  rescued,  as  we  stated  above, 
Fifty  Thousand  persons  from  their  machinations,  and 
taught  them  not  only  a  salutary  distrust,  but  a  con- 
tempt and  disbelief,  of  every  laboured  article  which 
appears  in  the  Papers  of  this  description. 


270  POETRY    OF 

Nor  can  We  be  accused  of  presumption  in  this  declara- 
tion, when  it  is  considered  that  the  conviction  on  which 
We  so  confidently  rely  is  not  the  effect  of  a  solitary 
impression  on  our  Readers'  minds,  but  of  one  four 
hundred  and  twenty  times  repeated  (this  being  the  fair 
amount  of  the  number  of  Lies,  &c.,  We  have  detected) — 
an  agglomeration  of  impulse  which  no  prejudice  could 
resist  and  no  pre-conceived  partialities  weaken  or  re- 
move. 

Here  then  We  rest.  We  trust  We  have  "done  the 
State  some  service "  ; — We  have  driven  the  Jacobins 
from  many  strongholds  to  which  they  most  tenaciously 
held.*  We  have  exposed  their  Principles,  detected  their 
Motives,  weakened  their  Authority,  and  overthrown 
their  Credit.  We  have  shewn  them  in  every  instance, 
ignorant,  and  designing,  and  false,  and  wicked,  and 
turbulent,  and  anarchical— various  in  their  language, 
but  united  in  their  plans,  and  steadily  pursuing  through 
hatred  and  contempt,  the  destruction  of  their  Country. 

With  this  impression  on  the  Minds  of  our  Eeaders  WE 
TAKE  OUR  LEAVE  of  them.  Their  welfare  is  in  their  own 
hands ;  if  they  suffer  the  Jacobins  to  regain  any  of  the 
influence  of  which  We  have  deprived  them,  they  will 
compromise  their  own  Safety ;  but  WE  shall  be  blame- 
less— Liberavimus  animas  nostras. — WE  HAVE  DONE  OUR 
DUTY. 

*  See  the  Remarks  on  the  Treaties  of  Pilnitz  and  Pavia,  &c.; 
on  TATE'S  Manifesto;  on  Neutral  Navigation;  on  the  Treatment 
of  Prisoners ;  on  the  Continuation  of  the  War  for  a  Spice  Island, 
Ac.,  &c.,  Ac. 


THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  271 

POETEY. 


Neio  Morality. 

From  mental  mists  to  purge  a  nation's  eyes ; 

To  animate  the  weak,  unite  the  wise  ; 

To  trace  the  deep  infection  that  pervades 

The  crowded  town,  and  taints  the  rural  shades  ; 

To  mark  how  wide  extends  the  mighty  waste 

O'er  the  fair  realms  of  Science,  Learning,  Taste ; 

To  drive  and  scatter  all  the  brood  of  lies, 

And  chase  the  varying  falsehood  as  it  flies  ; 

The  long  arrears  of  ridicule  to  pay, 

To  drag  reluctant  dulness  back  to  day ;  10 

Much  yet  remains. — To  you  these  themes  belong, 

Ye  favoured  sons  of  virtue  and  of  song ! 

Say,  is  the  field  too  narrow  ?  are  the  times 
Barren  of  folly,  and  devoid  of  crimes  ? 

Yet,  venial  vices,  in  a  milder  age, 
Could  rouse  the  warmth  of  POPE'S  satiric  rage  : 
The  doating  miser,  and  the  lavish  heir, 
The  follies  and  the  foibles  of  the  fair, 
Sir  Job,  Sir  Balaam,  and  old  Euclio's  thrift, 
And  Sappho's  diamonds  with  her  dirty  shift,          20 
Blunt,  Charteris,  Hopkins, — meaner  subjects  fired 
The  keen-eyed  Poet ;  while  the  Muse  inspired 
Her  ardent  child — entwining,  as  he  sate, 
His  laurel'd  chaplet  with  the  thorns  of  hate. 

But  say, — indignant  does  the  Muse  retire, 
Her  shrine  deserted,  and  extinct  its  fire  ? 
No  pious  hand  to  feed  the  sacred  flame, 
No  raptured  soul  a  poet's  charge  to  claim  ? 


272  POETKY   OP 

Bethink  thee,  GIFFOKD  ;  when  some  future  age 
Shall  trace  the  promise  of  thy  playful  page ; —  30 

"  *  The  hand  which  brushed  a  swarm  of  fools  away 
Should  rouse  to  grasp  a  more  reluctant  prey !  " — 
Think  then,  will  pleaded  indolence  excuse 
The  tame  secession  of  thy  languid  Muse  ? 

Ah  !  where  is  now  that  promise  ?  why  so  long 
Sleep  the  keen  shafts  of  satire  and  of  song  ? 
Oh  !  come,  with  taste  and  virtue  at  thy  side, 
With  ardent  zeal  inflamed,  and  patriot  pride ; 
With  keen  poetic  glance  direct  the  blow, 
And  empty  all  thy  quiver  on  the  foe  : —  40 

No  pause — no  rest — till  weltering  on  the  ground 
The   poisonous   hydra   lies,    and   pierced  with   many  a 
wound. 

Thou   too  !  —  the   nameless    Bard,  f  —  whose    honest 

zeal 

For  law,  for  morals,  for  the  public  weal, 
Pours  down  impetuous  on  thy  country's  foes 
The  stream  of  verse,  and  many-languaged  prose ; 
Thou  too  !  though  oft  thy  ill-advised  dislike 
The  guiltless  head  with  random  censure  strike, — 
Though  quaint  allusions,  vague  and  undefined, 
Play  faintly  round  the  ear,  but  mock  the  mind ; —          50 

*  See  the  motto  prefixed  to  The  Baviad,  a  satirical  poem, 
by  W.  Gilford,  Esq.,  unquestionably  the  best  of  its  kind  since 
the  days  of  Pope  : 

Nunc  in  ovilia 

Mox  in  reluctantes  dracones. 

tThe  author  of  The  Pursuits  of  Literature.  [Now  known 
to  be  T.  J.  Mathias,  editor  of  various  Italian  works,  and  teacher 
of  Italian  to  the  family  of  K.  George  III. — ED.] 


THE    ANTI- JACOBIN.  273 

Through  the  rnix'd  mass  yet  truth  and  learning  shine, 
And  manly  vigour  stamps  the  nervous  line ; 
And  patriot  warmth  the  generous  rage  inspires, 
And  wakes  and  points  the  desultory  fires  ! 

Yet  more  remain  unknown  :  — for  who  can  tell 
What  bashful  genius,  in  some  rural  cell, 
As  year  to  year,  and  day  succeeds  to  day, 
In  joyless  leisure  wastes  his  life  away  ? 
In  him  the  flame  of  early  fancy  shone ; 
His  genuine  worth  his  old  companions  own ;  60 

In  childhood  and  in  youth  their  chief  confess'd, 
His  master's  pride,  his  pattern  to  the  rest. 
Now,  far  aloof  retiring  from  the  strife 
Of  busy  talents,  and  of  active  life, 
As  from  the  loop-holes  of  retreat  he  views 
Our  stage,  verse,  pamphlets,  politics,  and  news, 
He  loathes  the  world, — or,  with  reflections  sad, 
Concludes  it  irrecoverably  mad ; 
Of  taste,  of  learning,  morals,  all  bereft, 
No  hope,  no  prospect  to  redeem  it  left.  70 

Awake  !  for  shame  !  or  e'er  thy  nobler  sense 
Sink  in  th'  oblivious  pool  of  indolence ! 
Must  wit  be  found  alone  on  falsehood's  side, 
Unknown  to  truth,  to  virtue  unallied? 
Arise !  nor  scorn  thy  country's  just  alarms ; 
Wield  in  her  cause  thy  long-neglected  arms  : 
Of  lofty  satire  pour  th'  indignant  strain, 
Leagued  with  her  friends,  and  ardent  to  maintain 
'Gainst  Learning's,  Virtue's,  Truth's,  Religion's  foes, 
A  kingdom's  safety,  and  the  world's  repose.  80 

18 


274  POETKY   OP 

If  Vice  appal  thee, — if  thou  view  with  awe 
Insults  that  brave,  and  crimes  that  'scape  the  law ; 
Yet  may  the  specious  bastard  brood,  which  claim 
A  spurious  homage  under  Virtue's  name, 
Sprung  from  that  parent  of  ten  thousand  crimes, 
The  New  Philosophy  of  modern  times, — 
Yet,  these  may  rouse  thee  ! — With  unsparing  hand, 
Oh,  lash  the  vile  impostures  from  the  land ! 

First,  stern  PHILANTHROPY  : — not  she,  who  dries 
The  orphan's  tears,  and  wipes  the  widow's  eyes ;  90 

Not  she,  who  sainted  Charity  her  guide, 
Of  British  bounty  pours  the  annual  tide  : — 
But  French  PHILANTHROPY; — whose  boundless  mind 
Glows  with  the  general  love  of  all  mankind ; — 
PHILANTHROPY, — beneath  whose  baneful  sway 
Each  patriot  passion  sinks,  and  dies  away. 

Taught  in  her  school  to  imbibe  thy  mawkish  strain, 
CONDORCET,  filtered  through  the  dregs  of  PAINE, 
Each  pert  adept  disowns  a  Briton's  part, 
And  plucks  the  name  of  ENGLAND  from  his  heart.          100 

What !  shall  a  name,  a  word,  a  sound,  control 
Th'  aspiring  thought,  and  cramp  th'  expansive  soul  ? 
Shall  one  half -peopled  Island's  rocky  round 
A  love,  that  glows  for  all  creation,  bound  ? 
And  social  charities  contract  the  plan 
Framed  for  thy  freedom,  UNIVERSAL  MAN  ! 
No — through  th'  extended  globe  his  feelings  run 
As  broad  and  general  as  th'  unbounded  sun  ! 
No  narrow  bigot  he  ; — his  reason'd  view 
Thy  interests,  England,  ranks  with  thine,  Peru  !  110 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  275 

France  at  our  doors,  lie  sees  no  danger  nigh, 
But  heaves  for  Tin-key's  woes  th'  impartial  sigh  ; 
A  steady  patriot  of  the  world  alone, 
The  friend  of  every  country — but  his  own. 

Next  comes  a  gentler  Virtue. — Ah  !  beware 
Lest  the  harsh  verse  her  shrinking  softness  scare. 
Visit  her  not  too  roughly  ; — the  warm  sigh 
Breathesonher  lips ; — the  tear-drop  gemsher  eye. 
Sweet  SENSIBILITY,  who  dwells  enshrined 
In  the  fine  foldings  of  the  feeling  mind ;  120 

With  delicate  Mimosa's  sense  endued, 
Who  shrinks  instinctive  from  a  hand  too  rude  ; 
Or,  like  the  Anagallis,  prescient  flower, 
Shuts  her  soft  petals  at  the  approaching  shower. 

Sweet  child  of  sickly  FANCY  ! — her  of  yore 
From  her  loved  France  EOUSSEAU  to  exile  bore ; 
And,  while  'midst  lakes  and  mountains  wild  he  ran, 
Full  of  himself,  and  shunn'd  the  haunts  of  man, 
Taught  her  o'er  each  lone  vale  and  Alpine  steep 
To  lisp  the  story  of  his  wrongs,  and  weep  ;  130 

Taught  her  to  cherish  still  in  either  eye, 
Of  tender  tears  a  plentiful  supply, 
And  pour  them  in  the  brooks  that  babbled  by ; 
Taught  by  nice  scale  to  mete  her  feelings  strong, 
False  by  degrees,  and  exquisitely  wrong  ; 
For  the  crush'd  beetle,  first, — the  widow'd  dove, 
And  all  the  warbled  sorrows  of  the  grove  ; 
Next  for  poor  suff  ring  Guilt ;  and  last  of  all, 
For  parents,  friends,  a  king  and  country's  fall. 

Mark  her  fair  votaries,  prodigal  of  grief,  140 

With  cureless  pangs,  and  woes  that  mock  relief, 


276  POETRY   OF 

Droop  in  soft  sorrow  o'er  a  faded  flower ; 

O'er  a  dead  Jack- Ass  pour  the  pearly  shower ; 

But  hear,  unmoved,  of  Loire's  ensanguined  flood, 

Choked  up  with  slain  ;  of  Lyons  drenched  in  blood  ; 

Of  crimes  that  blot  the  age,  the  world,  with  shame, 

Foul  crimes,  but  sicklied  o'er  with  Freedom's  name ; 

Altars  and  thrones  subverted  ;  social  life 

Trampled  to  earth, — the  husband  from  the  wife, 

Parent  from  child,  with  ruthless  fury  torn, —  150 

Of  talents,  honour,  virtue,  wit,  forlorn, 

In  friendless  exile, — of  the  wise  and  good 

Staining  the  daily  scaffold  with  their  blood, — 

Of  savage  cruelties,  that  scare  the  mind, 

The  rage  of  madness  with  hell's  lusts  combined, — 

Of  hearts  torn  reeking  from  the  mangled  breast, — 

They  hear, — and  hope  that  ALL  is  FOB  THE  BEST. 

Fond  hope !  but  JUSTICE  sanctifies  the  prayer — 
JUSTICE  !  here,  Satire,  strike  !  'twere  sin  to  spare  ! 
Not  she  in  British  Courts  that  takes  her  stand,  160 

The  dawdling  balance  dangling  in  her  hand, 
Adjusting  punishments  to  fraud  and  vice, 
With  scrupulous  quirks,  and  disquisition  nice  : 
But  firm,  erect,  with  keen  reverted  glance, 
Th'  avenging  angel  of  regenerate  France, 
Who  visits  ancient  sins  on  modern  times, 
And  punishes  the  POPE  for  CJESAE'S  crimes.* 

*  The  Manes  of  Vercengetorix  are  supposed  to  have  been 
very  much  gratified  by  the  invasion  of  Italy  and  the  plunder  of 
the  Roman  territory.  The  defeat  of  the  Burgundians  is  to  be 
revenged  on  the  modern  inhabitants  of  Switzerland.  But  the 
Swiss  were  a  free  people,  defending  their  liberties  against  a 
tyrant.  Moreover,  they  happened  to  be  in  alliance  with 
France  at  the  time.  No  matter ;  Burgundy  is  since  become 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  277 

Such  is  the  liberal  JUSTICE  which  presides 
In  these  our  days,  and  modern  patriots  guides  ; — 
JUSTICE,  whose  blood-stain'd  book  one  sole  decree,         170 
One  statute,  fills — "the  People  shall  be  Free  !  " 
Free  !   By  what  means  ? — by  folly,  madness,  guilt, 
By  boundless  rapines,  blood  in  oceans  spilt ; 
By  confiscation,  in  whose  sweeping  toils 
The  poor  man's  pittance  with  the  rich  man's  spoils, 
Mix'd  in  one  common  mass,  are  s\vept  away, 
To  glut  the  short-lived  tyrant  of  the  day ; — 
By  laws,  religion,  morals,  all  o'erthrown  : — 
Eouse,  then,  ye  sovereign  people,  claim  your  own  : 
The  license  that  enthrals,  the  truth  that  blinds,  180 

The  wealth  that  starves  you,  and  the  power  that  grinds  ! 
So  JUSTICE  bids. — 'Twas  her  enlighten'd  doom, 
Louis,  thy  holy  head  devoted  to  the  tomb  ! 
'Twas  JUSTICE  claim'd,  in  that  accursed  hour, 
The  fatal  forfeit  of  too  lenient  power. 
Mourn  for  the  Man  we  may ; — but  for  the  King, — 
Freedom,  oh !  Freedom's  such  a  charming  thing ! 

"Much  maybe  said  on  both  sides." — Hark!  I  hear 
A  well-known  voice  that  murmurs  in  my  ear, — 
The  voice  of  CANDOUB. — Hail!  most  solemn  sage,          190 
Thou  drivelling  virtue  of  this  moral  age, 
CANDOUR,  which  softens  party's  headlong  rage. 
CANDOUR, — which  spares  its  foes ; — nor  e'er  descends 
With  bigot  zeal  to  combat  for  its  friends. 

a  province  of  France,  and  the  French  have  acquired  a  property 
in  all  the  injuries  and  defeats  which  the  people  of  that  country 
may  have  sustained,  together  with  a  title  to  revenge  and  retalia- 
tion to  be  exercised  in  the  present  or  any  future  centuries,  as 
may  be  foiind  most  glorious  and  convenient. 


278  POETKY    OF 

CANDOUK, — which  loves  in  see-saw  strain  to  tell 

Of  acting  foolishly,  but  meaning  well  ; 

Too  nice  to  praise  by  wholesale,  or  to  blame, 

Convinced  that  all  men's  motives  are  the  same  ; 

And  finds,  with  keen  discriminating  sight, 

BLACK'S  not  so  black  ; — nor  WHITE  so  very  white.         200 

"  Fox,  to  be  sure,  was  vehement  and  wrong  : 
But  then,  PITT'S  words,  you'll  own,  were  rather  strong. 
Both  must  be  blamed,  both  pardon'd ;  'twas  just  so 
With  Fox  and  PITT  full  forty  years  ago  ! 
So  WALPOLE,  PULTENEY  ; — factions  in  all  times 
Have  had  their  follies,  ministers  their  crimes." 

Give  me  th'  avow'd,  th'  erect,  the  manly  foe, 
Bold  I  can  meet — perhaps  may  turn  his  blow  ; 
But  of  all  plagues,  good  Heav'n,  thy  wrath  can  send, 
Save,  save,  oh  !  save  me  from  the  Candid  Friend  !         210 

"  B ARRAS  loves  plunder,  MERLIN  takes  a  bribe, — 
What    then  !  —  shall    CANDOUR    these   good]  menj' pro- 
scribe ? 

No  !  ere  we  join  the  loud-accusing  throng, 
Prove, — not    the    facts, — but,    that    they    thought    them 
wrong. 

"  Why  hang  O'QuiGLEY? — he,  misguided  man, 
In  sober  thought  his  country's  weal  might  plan  : 
And,  while  his  deep-wrought  Treason  sapp'd  the  throne, 
Might  act  from  taste  in  morals,  all  his  own." 

Peace  to  such  Eeasoners !  let  them  have  their  way; 
Shut  their  dull  eyes  against  the  blaze  of  day ;  220 

PRIESTLEY'S  a  Saint,  and  STONE  a  Patriot  still ; 
And  LA  FAYETTE  a  Hero,  if  they  will. 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  279 

I  love  the  bold  uncompromising  mind, 
Whose  principles  are  fix'd,  whose  views  defined ; 
Who  scouts  and  scorns,  in  canting  CANDOUR'S  spite, 
All  taste  in  morals,  innate  sense  of  right, 
And  Nature's  impulse,  all  uncheck'd  by  art, 
And  feelings  fine,  that  float  about  the  heart : 
Content,  for  good  men's  guidance,  bad  men's  awe, 
On  moral  truth  to  rest,  and  Gospel  law.  230 

Who  owns,  when  Traitors  feel  th'  avenging  rod, 
Just  retribution,  and  the  hand  of  GOD  ; 
Who  hears  the  groans  through  Olmutz'  roofs  that  ring, 
Of  him  who  mock'd,  misled,  betray'd  his  King — 
Hears  unappall'd,  though  Faction's  zealots  preach, 
Unmov'd,  unsoften'd  by  FITZPATRICK'S  Speech.* 

That  Speech  on  which  the  melting  Commons  hung, 
"While  truths  divine  came  mended  from  his  tongue"; 

*  The  speech  of  GENERAL  FITZPATEICK,  on  his  motion  for 
an  Address  of  the  House  of  Commons  to  the  Emperor  of  Ger- 
many, to  demand  the  deliverance  of  M.  LA  FAYETTE  from  the 
prison  of  Olmutz,  was  one  of  the  most  dainty  pieces  of  oratory 
that  ever  drew  tears  from  a  crowded  gallery,  and  the  clerks  at 
the  table.  It  was  really  quite  moving  to  hear  the  General  talk 
of  religion,  conjugal  fidelity,  and  "  such  branches  of  learning  ". 
There  were  a  few  who  laughed  indeed,  but  that  was  thought 
hard-hearted,  and  immoral,  and  irreligious,  and  God  knows 
what.  Crying  was  the  order  of  the  day.  Why  will  not  the 
OPPOSITION  try  these  topics  again  ?  LA  FAYETTE  indeed  (the 
more's  the  pity)  is  out.  But  why  not  a  motion  for  a  general 
gaol-delivery  of  all  state  prisoners  throughout  Europe  ?  [This 
was  FITZPATRICK'S  master-speech,  and  extorted  the  applauses  of 
PITT  himself,  who  nevertheless  resisted  its  arguments.  BURKE 
said  that  LA  FAYETTE,  "  instead  of  being  termed  an  '  illustrious 
exile,'  ought  always  to  be  considered,  as  he  now  was,  an  outcast 
of  society ;  who,  having  no  talents  to  guide  or  influence  the  storm 
which  he  had  laboured  to  raise,  fled  like  a  dastard  from  the  blood- 
shed and  massacre  in  which  he  had  involved  so  many  thousands 
of  unoffending  persons  and  families". — ED.] 


280  POETBY   OP 

How  loving  husband  clings  to  duteous  wife, — 

How  pure  Eeligion  soothes  the  ills  of  life, —  240 

How  Popish  ladies  trust  their  pious  fears 

And  naughty  actions  in  their  chaplains'  ears. — 

Half  novel  and  half  sermon,  on  it  flow'd  ; 

With  pious  zeal  THE  OPPOSITION  glow'd ; 

And  as  o'er  each  the  soft  infection  crept, 

Sigh'd  as  he  whin'd,  and  as  he  whimper'd,  wept ; — 

E'en  CURWEN  *  dropt  a  sentimental  tear, 

And  stout  ST.  ANDREW  yelp'd  a  softer  "  Hear  !  " 


Oh  !  nurse  of  crimes  and  fashions  !  which  in  vain 
Our  colder  servile  spirits  would  attain,  250 

How  do  we  ape  thee,  France  !  but,  blundering  still, 
Disgrace  the  pattern  by  our  want  of  skill. 
The  borrow'd  step  our  awkward  gait  reveals  : 
(As  clumsy  COURTENAY  t  mars  the  verse  he  steals.) 
How  do  we  ape  thee,  France  ! — nor  claim  alone 
Thy  arts,  thy  tastes,  thy  morals,  for  our  own,  260 

But  to  thy  WORTHIES  render  homage  due, 
Their  \    "  hair-breadth   scapes "    with   anxious   interest 
view; 

*  "  Now  all  the  while  did  not  this  stony-hearted  CUR  shed  one 
tear."—  Merchant  of  Venice.  [JOHN  CURWEN  -  member  for  the 
city  of  Carlisle,  from  1786  till  1812.  He  was  a  skilful  agricul- 
turist, and  his  operations  may  be  said  to  have  given  a  new 
character  to  the  business  of  farming.  He  died  in  1828,  aged 
73.— ED.] 

f  See  page  72,  in  the  note,  for  a  theft  more  shameless,  and 
an  application  of  the  thing  stolen  more  stupid,  than  any  of 
those  recorded  of  Irish  story-tellers  by  Joe  Miller. 

J  See  R&it  de  mes  Perils,  by  LOUVET  ;  Me'moires  (Pun  Detenu, 
by  EIOUFFE,  &c.  The  avidity  with  which  these  productions 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  281 

Statesmen  and  Heroines  whom  this  age  adores, 
Though  plainer   times    would   call    them    Eogues   and 
Whores.  260 

See  LOUVET,  patriot,  pamphleteer,  and  sage, 
Tempering  with  amorous  fire  his  virtuous  rage. 
Forrn'd  for  all  tasks,  his  various  talents  see, 
The  luscious  Novel,  the  severe  Decree. 
Then  mark  him  welt'ring  in  his  nasty  sty, 
Bare  his  lewd  transports  to  the  public  eye. 
Not  his  the  love  in  silent  groves  that  strays, 
Quits  the  rude  world,  and  shuns  the  vulgar  gaze. 
In  LODOISKA'S  full  possession  blest, 

One  craving  void  still  aches  within  his  breast ;  270 

Plunged  in  the  filth  and  fondness  of  her  arms, 
Not  to  himself  alone  he  stints  her  charms  ; 
Clasp'd  in  each  other's  foul  embrace  they  lie, 
But  know  no  joy,  unless  the  World  stands  by. 
The  fool  of  vanity,  for  her  alone 
He  lives,  loves,  writes,  and  dies  but  to  be  known. 

His  widow'd  mourner  flies  to  poison's  aid, 
Eager  to  join  her  Lou  VET'S  parted  shade 
In  those  bright  realms  where  sainted  lovers  stray, 
But  harsh  emetics  tear  that  hope  away.*  280 

were  read,  might,  we  should  hope,  be  accounted  for  upon 
principles  of  mere  curiosity  (as  we  read  the  Neicgate  Calendar, 
and  the  history  of  the  Buccaneers),  not  from  any  interest  in 
favour  of  a  set  of  wretches  infinitely  more  detestable  than  all 
the  robbers  and  pirates  that  ever  existed. 

*  Every  lover  of  modern  French  literature,  and  admirer  of 
modern  French  characters,  must  remember  the  rout  which  was 
made  about  LOUVET'S  death  and  LODOISKA'S  poison.  The  at- 
tempt at  self-slaughter,  and  the  process  of  the  recovery,  the 
arsenic  and  the  castor  oil,  were  served  up  in  daily  messes  from 
the  French  papers,  till  the  public  absolutely  sickened. 


282  POETRY   OF 

Yet  hapless  LOUVET  !  where  thy  bones  are  laid, 
The  easy  nymphs  shall  consecrate  the  shade.* 
There  in  the  laughing  morn  of  genial  spring, 
Unwedded  pairs  shall  tender  couplets  sing ; 
Eringoes  o'er  the  hallow'd  spot  shall  bloom, 
And  flies  of  Spain  buzz  softly  round  the  tomb.f 

But  hold,  severer  virtue  claims  the  Muse — 
EOLAND  the  just,  with  ribands  in  his  shoes — J 
And  EOLAND'S  spouse,  who  paints  with  chaste  delight 
The  doubtful  conflict  of  her  nuptial  night ; —  290 

Her  virgin  charms  what  fierce  attacks  assail'd, 
And  how  the  rigid  Minister  §  prevail'd. 

And  ah  !  what  verse  can  grace  thy  stately  mien, 
Guide  of  the  world,  preferment's  golden  queen, 
NECKAB'S  fair  daughter, — STAEL  the  Epicene  ! 
Bright  o'er  whose  flaming  cheek  and  puniple  ||  nose 
The  bloom  of  young  desire  unceasing  glows  ! 
Fain  would  the  Muse — but  ah  !  she  dares  no  more, 
A  mournful  voice  from  lone  Guyana's  shore,  1T 

*  Faciles  Napece.  t  See  Anthologia,  passim. 

J  Such  was  the  strictness  of  this  minister's  principles,  that 
he  positively  refused  to  go  to  Court  in  shoe-buckles.  See 
Dumouriez's  Memoirs. 

§  See  MADAME  EOLAND'S  Memoirs. — "  Rigide  Ministre,"  Brissot 
d  ses  Commettans. 

||  The  "puniple"  nosed  attorney  of  Furnival's  Inn. — Con- 
greve's  Way  of  tlie  World"  [.  .  ,  When  you  liv'd  with  honest 
Pumple  Nose,  the  attorney  of  Furnival's  Inn.  Act  3,  sc.  1.1  — 
ED. 

^[  These  lines  contain  the  Secret  History  of  QUATREMEE'S 
deportation.  He  presumed  in  the  Council  of  Five  Hundred 
to  arraign  MADAME  DE  STAEL'S  conduct,  and  even  to  hint  a 
doubt  of  her  sex.  He  was  sent  to  Guyana.  The  transaction 
naturally  brings  to  one's  mind  the  dialogue  between  Falstaff 
and  Hostess  Quickly  in  Shakespeare's  Henry  IV. 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  283 

Sad  QUATREMER  —  the  bold  presumption  checks,           300 
Forbid  to  question  thy  ambiguous  sex. 

To  thee,  proud  B  ARRAS  bows;  —  thy  charms  control 
EEWBELL'S  brute  rage,  and  MERLIN'S  subtle  soul  ; 
Eais'd  by  thy  hands,  and  fashion'd  to  thy  will, 
Thy  power,  thy  guiding  influence,  governs  still, 
Where  at  the  blood-stain'd  board  expert  he  plies, 
The  lame  artificer  of  fraud  and  lies  ; 
He  with  the  mitred  head  and  cloven  heel  ;  — 
Doom'd  the  coarse  edge  of  EEWBELL'S  jests  to  feel  ;  * 
To  stand  the  playful  buffet,  and  to  hear  310 

The  frequent  ink-stand  whizzing  past  his  ear  ; 
While  all  the  five  Directors  laugh  to  see 
"  The  limping  priest  so  deft  at  his  new  ministry  ".f 

Last  of  th'  ANOINTED  FIVE  behold,  and  least, 
The  Directorial  LAMA,  Sovereign  Priest,  — 
LEPAUX  ;  —  whom  atheists  worship  ;  —  at  whose  nod 
Bow  their  meek  heads  the  Men  without  a 


Fal.  Thou  art  neither  fish  nor  flesh  —  a  man  cannot  tell  where 
to  have  thee. 

Quick.  Thou  art  an  unjust  man  for  saying  so  —  thou  or  any 
man  knows  where  to  have  me. 

*  For  instance,  in  the  course  of  a  political  discussion  REW- 
BELL  observed  to  the  EX-BISHOP  [TALLEYRAND]  ,  "  that  his  under- 
standing was  as  crooked  as  his  legs  "  —  "  Vil  Emigre*,  tu  n'as  pas  le 
sens  plus  droit  que  les  pieds  "  —  and  therewith  threw  an  ink- 
stand at  him.  It  whizzed  along,  as  we  have  been  informed, 
like  the  fragment  of  a  rock  from  the  hand  of  one  of  Ossian's 
heroes  ;  but  the  wily  apostate  shrunk  beneath  the  table,  and 
the  weapon  passed  over  him  innocuous,  and  guiltless  of  his 
blood  or  brains. 

t  See  Homer's  description  of  Vulcan.     First  Iliad. 
Inextinguibilis  vero  exoriebatur  risus  beatis  nmninibus 
Ut  viderunt  Vulcanum  per  domos  ministrantem. 

J  The  Men  without  a  God  —  one  of  the  new  sects.  Their  re- 
ligion is  intended  to  consist  in  the  adoration  of  a  Great  Book, 


284  POETRY   OF 

Ere  long,  perhaps,  to  this  astonish'd  isle, 
Fresh  from  the  shores  of  subjugated  Nile, 
Shall  BUONAPARTE'S  victor  fleet  protect  320 

The  genuine  Theo-Philanthropic  sect, — 
The  sect  of  MARAT,  MIRABEAU,  VOLTAIRE, — 
Led  by  their  Pontiff,  good  LA  EEVEILLERE. 
Eejoiced  our  CLUBS  shall  greet  him,  and  install 
The  holy  Hunchback  in  thy  dome,  St.  Paul ! 
While  countless  votaries,  thronging  in  his  train, 
Wave  their  red  caps,  and  hymn  this  jocund  strain : — 

"  Couriers  and  Stars,  Sedition's  evening  host, 
Thou  Morning  Chronicle  and  Morning  Post, 
Whether  ye  make  the  Eights  of  Man  your  theme,          330 
Your  country  libel,  and  your  God  blaspheme, 
Or  dirt  on  private  worth  and  virtue  throw, 
Still,  blasphemous  or  blackguard,  praise  LEPAUX  ! 

"  And  ye  five  other  wandering  bards,  that  move 
In  sweet  accord  of  harmony  and  love, 
COLERIDGE  and  SOUTHEY,  LLOYD,  and  LAMB  &  Co. 
Tune  all  your  mystic  harps  to  praise  LEPAUX  ! 

"  PRIESTLEY  and  WAKEFIELD,  humble,  holy  men, 
Give  praises  to  his  name  with  tongue  and  pen  ! 

"  THELWALL,  and  ye  that  lecture  as  ye  go,  340 

And  for  your  pains  get  pelted,  praise  LEPAUX  ! 

"  Praise  him  each  Jacobin,  or  Fool,  or  Knave, 
And  your  cropp'd  heads  in  sign  of  worship  wave  ! 

in  which  all  the  virtuous  actions  of  the  society  are  to  be  entered 
and  registered.  "  In  times  of  civil  commotion  they  are  to  come 
forward  to  exhort  the  citizens  to  tuianimity,  and  to  read  them  a 
chapter  out  of  the  Great  Book.  When  oppressed  or  proscribed, 
they  are  to  retire  to  a  burying-ground,  to  wrap  themselves  up  in 
their  great-coats,  and  wait  the  approach  of  death,"  &c. 


dnatvn 

.  t  sottify.-  udmitie  Jtsmus  o  fimyiiM a/urn 

bin*,  iltdf (tfimi&fyt.  ajun,  fttmuuMutoj  olj«t.btji  tfooinrc-af  foKittlt  fascautoK,  mfaurds  tin.  aifertuna, 

-  or<ftttr. 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  285 

"  All  creeping  creatures,  venomous  and  low, 
PAINE,  WILLIAMS,  GODWIN,  HOLCKOFT,  praise  LEPAUX  ! 

" and with join'd,* 

And  every  other  beast  after  his  kind. 

"  And  thou,  Leviathan  !  on  ocean's  brim 
Hugest  of  living  things  that  sleep  and  swim  ; 
Thou,  in  whose  nose,  by  BUBKE'S  gigantic  hand  350 

The  hook  was  fixed  to  drag  thee  to  the  land, 

With ,  —   — ,  and ,  in  thy  train, 

And wallowing  in  the  yeasty  main, —  f 

Still  as  ye  snort,  and  puff,  and  spout,  and  blow, 
In  puffing,  and  in  spouting,  praise  LEPAUX  ! 


BRITAIN,  beware  ;  nor  let  th'  insidious  foe, 
Of  force  despairing,  aim  a  deadlier  blow ; 
Thy  Peace,  thy  Strength,  with  devilish  wiles  assail, 
And  when  her  Arms  are  vain,  by  Arts  prevail. 
True,  thou  art  rich,  art  powerful ! — thro'  thine  Isle          360 
Industrious  skill,  contented  labour,  smile  ; 
Far  Seas  are  studded  with  thy  countless  sails  ; 
What  wind  but  wafts  them,  and  what  shore  but  hails ! 
True,  thou  art  brave  ! — o'er  all  the  busy  land 
In  patriot  ranks  embattled  myriads  stand ; 

*  The  Header  is  at  liberty  to  fill  up  the  blanks  according  to 
his  own  opinion,  and  after  the  chances  and  changes  of  the  times. 
It  would  be  highly  unfair  to  hand  down  to  posterity  as  followers 
of  Leviathan,  the  names  of  men  who  may,  and  probably  will 
soon,  grow  ashamed  of  their  leader. 

f  Though  the  yeasty  sea 

Consume  and  swallow  navigation  up.     Macbeth. 
[Applied  to  S.  "Whitbread,  M.P.,  the  Brewer. — ED.] 


286  POETBY   OF 

Thy  foes  behold  with  impotent  amaze 
And  drop  the  lifted  weapon  as  they  gaze 

But  what  avails  to  guard  each  outward  part, 
If  subtlest  poison,  circling  at  thy  heart, 
Spite  of  thy  courage,  of  thy  pow'r,  and  wealth,  370 

Mine  the  sound  fabric  of  thy  vital  health  ? 

So  thine  own  Oak,  by  some  fair  streamlet's  side, 
Waves  its  broad  arms,  and  spreads  its  leafy  pride, 
Tow'rs  from  the  earth,  and  rearing  to  the  skies 
Its  conscious  strength,  the  tempest's  wrath  defies. 
Its  ample  branches  shield  the  fowls  of  air, 
To  its  cool  shade  the  panting  herds  repair. 
The  treacherous  current  works  its  noiseless  way, 
The  fibres  loosen,  and  the  roots  decay ; 
Prostrate  the  beauteous  ruin  lies ;  and  all  380 

That  shared  its  shelter,  perish  in  its  fall. 

0  thou  !  lamented  SAGE  !  whose  prescient  scan 
Pierc'd  through  foul  Anarchy's  gigantic  plan, 
Prompt  to  incredulous  hearers  to  disclose 
The  guilt  of  France,  and  Europe's  world  of  woes ; — 
Thou,  on  whose  name  each  distant  age  shall  gaze, 
The  mighty  sea-mark  of  these  troubled  days  ! 
O  large  of  soul,  of  genius  unconfin'd, 
Born  to  delight,  instruct,  and  mend  mankind  ! 
BUEKE  !  in  whose  breast  a  Eoman  ardour  glow'd ;  390 

Whose  copious  tongue  with  Grecian  richness  flow'd; 
Well  hast  thou  found  (if  such  thy  country's  doom), 
A  timely  refuge  in  the  sheltering  tomb ! 

As,  in  far  realms,  where  eastern  kings  are  laid, 
In  pomp  of  death,  beneath  the  cypress  shade, 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  287 

The  perfum'd  lamp  with  unextinguish'd  light 

Flames  through  the  vault,   and  cheers   the   gloom   of 

night : 

So,  mighty  BURKE  !  in  thy  sepulchral  urn, 
To  Fancy's  view,  the  lamp  of  Truth  shall  burn. 
Thither  late  times  shall  turn  their  reverent  eyes,          400 
Led  by  thy  light,  and  by  thy  wisdom  wise. 

There  are,  to  whom  (their  taste  such  pleasures  cloy) 
No  light  thy  wisdom  yields,  thy  wit  no  joy. 
Peace  to  their  heavy  heads,  and  callous  hearts, 
Peace — such  as  sloth,  as  ignorance  imparts  ! 
Pleas'd  may  they  live  to  plan  their  country's  good, 
And  crop  with  calm  content  their  flow'ry  food ! 

What  though  thy  venturous  spirit  loved  to  urge 
The  labouring  theme  to  Eeason's  utmost  verge, 
Kindling  and  mounting  from  th'  enraptur'd  sight ;        410 
Still  anxious  wonder  watch'd  thy  daring  flight ! 
While  vulgar  minds,  with  mean  malignant  stare, 
Gazed  up,  the  triumph  of  thy  fall  to  share ! 
Poor  triumph  !  price  of  that  extorted  praise, 
Which  still  to  daring  Genius  Envy  pays. 

Oh  !  for  thy  playful  smile,  thy  potent  frown, 
To  abash  bold  Vice,  and  laugh  pert  Folly  down  ! 
So  should  the  Muse,  in  Humour's  happiest  vein, 
With  verse  that  flowed  in  metaphoric  strain, 
And  apt  allusions  to  the  rural  trade,  420 

Tell  of  it-hat  wood  young  JACOBINS  ore  made; 
How  the  skill'd  gardener  grafts  with  nicest  rule 
The  slip  of  coxcomb  on  the  ftock  of  fool ; 


288  POETRY   OF 

Forth  in  bright  blossom  bursts  the  tender  sprig, 

A  thing  to  wonder  at — *  perhaps  a  Whig  : 

Should  tell,  how  wise  each  half-fledged  pedant  prates 

Of  weightiest  matters,  grave  distinctions  states, 

That  rules  of  policy,  and  public  good, 

In  Saxon  times  were  rightly  understood ; 

That  kings  are  proper,  may  be  useful  things,  430 

But  then,  some  gentlemen  object  to  kings; 

That  in  all  times  the  minister's  to  blame ; 

That  British  liberty's  an  empty  name, 

Till  each  fair  burgh,  numerically  free, 

Shall  choose  its  members  by  the  Rule  of  Three. 

So  should  the  Muse,  with  verse  in  thunder  clothed, 
Proclaim  the  crimes  by  God  and  Nature  loathed. 
Which — when  fell  poison  revels  in  the  veins — 
(That  poison  fell,  which  frantic  Gallia  drains 
From  the  crude  fruit  of  Freedom's  blasted  tree)  440 

Blot  the  fair  records  of  Humanity. 

To  feebler  nations  let  proud  France  afford 
Her  damning  choice, — the  chalice  or  the  sword, 
To  drink  or  die ; — 0  fraud  !  0  specious  lie ! 
Delusive  choice  !  for  if  they  drink,  they  die. 

*  i.e.  Perhaps  a  member  of  the  WHIG  CLUB — a  society  that  has 
presumed  to  monopolize  to  itself  a  title  to  which  it  never  had 
any  claim,  but  from  the  character  of  those  who  have  now  with- 
drawn themselves  from  it.  "Perhaps"  signifies  that  even  the 
WHIG  CLUB  sometimes  rejects  a  candidate  whose  PRINCIPLES 
(risum  teneatis)  it  affects  to  disapprove.  [Eeferring  to  the 
secession  of  the  DUKE  OF  PORTLAND  and  others  from  the  Whig 
Club  in  consequence  of  their  not  approving  of  all  the  pro- 
ceedings of  Fox  and  his  more  violent  adherents.  SHERIDAN  met 
with  so  much  opposition  to  his  entrance  into  the  Whig  Club, 
that  he  succeeded  in  getting  admitted  only  by  stratagem. — ED.] 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  289 

The  Sword  we  dread  not : — of  ourselves  secure, 
Firm  were  our  strength,  our  peace  and  freedom  sure. 
Let  all  the  world  confederate  all  its  powers, 
"  Be  they  not  backed  by  those  that  should  be  ours," 
High  on  his  rock  shall  BRITAIN'S  GENIUS  stand,  450 
Scatter  the  crowded  hosts,  and  vindicate  the  land. 

Guard  we  but  our  own  Hearts :  with  constant  view 
To  ancient  morals,  ancient  manners  true ; 
True  to  the  manlier  virtues,  such  as  nerv'd 
Our  fathers'  breasts,  and  this  proud  Isle  preserv'd 
For  many  a  rugged  age  :  and  scorn  the  while 
Each  philosophic  atheist's  specious  guile ; 
The  soft  seductions,  the  refinements  nice, 
Of  gay  Morality,  and  easy  Vice ; 
So  shall  we  brave  the  storm ;  our  'stablish'd  pow'r 
Thy  refuge,  EUROPE,  in  some  happier  hour.  461 

But,  FRENCH  in  heart,  though  Victory  crown  our  brow, 
Low  at  our  feet  though  prostrate  Nations  bow, 
Wealth  gild  our  Cities,  Commerce  crowd  our  shore, 
LONDON  MAY  SHINE,  but  ENGLAND  is  NO  MORE  ! 


FOEEIGN  INTELLIGENCE. 

IN  the  last  Address  which  We  shall  have  to  make  to 
the  Public,  We  would  willingly  review  the  whole  of 
what  has  been  advanced  by  Us  under  the  different  Heads 
of  our  Paper,  and  leave  behind  us  a  Summary  of  our 
Opinions  upon  the  state  of  each  subject  as  We  found  it, 
and  as  We  conceive  it  to  stand  at  the  moment  when  our 
labours  are  concluded. 

Upon  no  point,  if  We  are  to  speak  our  sincere  opinion, 
19 


290  POETBY   OF 

is  the  task  more  easily  to  be  executed,  or  in  a  less  com- 
pass, than  in  what  relates  to  Foreign  Politics. 

In  other  times,  the  relations  of  States  to  each  other 
have  been  matter  of  great  study,  and  difficulty ;  have 
been  embarrassed  with  a  diversity  of  views,  and  a  com- 
plication of  interests,  which  it  might  require  much  ex- 
perience to  calculate,  and  much  political  sagacity  to 
reconcile. 

At  present,  there  is  but  one  relation  among  all  the 
States  of  Europe  : — one,  at  least,  there  is  so  paramount, 
as  to  confound  and  swallow  up  all  inferior  considerations. 

FRANCE  is  BENT  ON  THE  CONQUEST  AND  RUIN  OF  THEM 
ALL.  To  repel  this  Conquest,  to  ward  off  this  ruin,  various 
means  are  tried,  according  to  the  power  or  the  prudence 
of  the  different  Nations.  War,  Treaty,  Supplication, 
Bribery,  timid  Neutrality,  implicit  Submission,  and, 
finally,  an  Incorporation  into  the  Map  of  the  Great  Re- 
public, are  all  at  this  moment  exemplified  in  the  con- 
duct of  the  Countries  which  surround  us. 

Our  lot,  a  lot  imposed  upon  us  by  necessity,  but  which 
if  it  were  not  so  imposed  upon  us,  whoever  is  not  blind, 
judicially  blind  to  the  conduct  of  France  towards  us,  and 
every  other  Country,  would  claim  by  choice,  is  WAR. 

The  relation  in  which  we  may  stand  to  the  other  States 
of  Europe,  or  they  to  each  other,  is  comparatively  of 
little  moment.  They  may  reciprocate  Missions,  and 
propose  Treaties, — the  Ligurian  Republic  may  make  Peace 
or  War  with  the  Cisalpine;  the  Cisalpine  with  the  Roman; 
— either  of  them  with  the  KING  of  SARDINIA,  with  Tuscany, 
or  with  Naples;  and  the  greater  Powers  may  mediate,  or 
embroil  the  quarrel,  may  offer  their  protection,  and  talk 
of  their  Dignity: — But  the  question  does  not  lie  there. — 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  291 

France  has  the  power  and  the  will  to  controul,  to  oppress 
them  altogether ;  to  limit  or  extend  their  Boundaries, 
as  she  sees  good ;  to  approve  or  annul  their  Internal 
Eegulations,  as  well  as  their  stipulations  with  each  other  : 
And  while  she  has  that  power,  whether  it  be  by  strength 
in  herself,  or  by  the  sufferance  of  others ;  whether  she 
may  choose  to  vex  and  harass  them  in  mass,  or  detail ; 
to  keep  peace  between  them,  or  to  set  them  at  variance  ; 
to  work  their  revolutions  by  her  own  arms,  or  to  dele- 
gate that  sacred  office  to  their  neighbours  ;  or,  finally,  to 
insist  upon  their  performing  it  each  for  themselves  ; — the 
result  to  us  is  the  same.  The  People  of  Europe  are 
equally  enslaved ; — it  matters  not  whether  they  are 
manacled  separately,  or  bolted  to  the  links  of  a  long 
chain  which  connects  and  coerces  them  in  a  fellowship 
of  misery. 

Mortalia  corda 
Per  gentes  humilis  stravit  pavor. 

To  Us,  the  relation  of  these  unhappy  Powers,  is  either 
that  of  Friends  forced  into  a  Foreign  Army  to  fight 
against  us,  or  placed,  hand-cuffed,  on  the  Deck  of  a  Line 
of  Battle  Ship  to  receive  our  fire — or  it  is  that  of  a 
Captive  languishing  in  a  Dungeon  against  which  We 
are  making  an  attack,  and  who  does  not  dare  to  acknow- 
ledge his  Friend,  till  he  can  hail  him  as  his  Deliverer. 

The  Contest  between  Great  Britain  and  France,  then, 
is  not  for  the  existence  of  the  former  only,  but  for  the 
Freedom  of  the  World.  To  look  to  partial  Interests,  to 
talk  of  partial  Successes,  as  bearing  upon  the  main  object 
and  general  issue  of  the  War,  is  to  take  a  narrow  and 
pitiful  view  of  the  most  momentous  and  most  tremendous 


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subject  that  ever  was  brought  under  the  consideration  of 
mankind. 

If  Great  Britain,  insensible  of  what  she  owes  to  herself 
and  to  the  World,  flinches  (for  she  cannot  fall),  in  the 
Contest ; — she  throws  away  not  herself  alone,  but  the 
peace  and  happiness  of  Nations.  If  she  maintain  her- 
self stoutly ; — to  speculate  on  the  mode,  the  time,  the 
means  by  which  success  adequate  to  the  immensity  of 
the  object  at  stake  is  to  be  attained,  were,  indeed,  pre- 
sumptuous ; — but  We  risk,  without  apprehension  of 
being  thought  sanguine  in  our  hopes  and  expectations,  or 
of  being  contradicted  by  the  event,  the  sentiment  of  the 
greatest  Orator  of  ancient  times — "  It  is  not,  it  cannot 
be  possible,  that  an  Empire  founded  on  injustice,  on 
rapacity,  on  perfidy,  on  the  contempt  and  disregard  of 
everything  sacred  towards  God,  or  among  Men  ; — it  is 
not  possible  that  such  an  Empire  should  endure." 


NOTES  TO   "NEW  MORALITY". 

JOSEPH  PRIESTLEY,  LL.D.  (page  278). 

"  I  have  read  a  communication  from  GEORGE  III.  to  one  of  his  ministers,  on 
the  subject  of  the  riots  in  which  PRIESTLEY'S  house  was  burned.  His  MAJESTY 
says,  in  his  short  emphatic  way,  that  the  riots  must  be  stopped  immediately  ; 
that  no  man's  house  must  be  left  in  peril ;  and  then  he  orders  the  march  of 
certain  troops,  &c.,  to  restore  peace  ;  and  concludes  with  saying  that,  as  the 
mischief  did  occur,  it  was  impossible  not  to  be  pleased  at  its  having  fallen  on 
PRIESTLEY  rather  than  another,  that  he  might  feel  the  wickedness  of  the  doc- 
trines of  democracy  which  he  was  propagating."—/.  W.  Croker  ( MS.).—  [Eo.] 


MADAME  DE  STAEL  (page  282). 

"MADAME  DE  STAEL  was  at  Mickleham,  in  Surrey,  in  1793,  with  Talleyrand, 
Narbonne,  Jaucourt,  Guibert  (who  proposed  to  her),  and  others.  There  was 
not  a  little  scandal  about  her  relations  with  Narbonne  (see  Fanny  Burney"s 
Letters).  Xarbonne's  place  was  supplied  by  Benjamin  Constant,  who  had  a 
very  great  influence  over  her,  as  in  return  she  had  over  him.  At  Coppet,  she 
found  consolation  in  a  young  officer  of  Swiss  origin,  named  Rocca,  twenty-three 
years  her  junior,  whom  she  married  privately  in  1811.  She  had  married  Baron 
de  Stael  in  1786,  and  in  1797  they  separated.  He  died  in  1S02  ;  and  she  in  1817." 
— Life  of  Mad.  de  Staet,  by  A.  Stevens,  1880. 

"  On  the  28th  of  January  "  (says  Crabb  Robinson  in  his  Diary,  1804),  "  I  first 
waited  on  MADAME  DE  STAEL.  I  was  shown  into  her  bedroom,  for  which,  not 
knowing  Parisian  customs,  I  was  unprepared.  She  was  sitting,  most  decorously, 
in  her  bed,  and  writing.  She  had  her  night-cap  on,  and  her  face  was  not  made 
up  for  the  day.  It  was  by  no  means  a  captivating  spectacle,  but  I  had  a  very 
cordial  reception,  and  two  bright  black  eyes  smiled  benignantly  on  me.  After 
a  warm  expression  of  her  pleasure  at  making  my  acquaintance,  she  dismissed 
me  till  three  o'clock.  On  my  return  then  I  found  a  very  different  person  ^-^— 
the  accomplished  Frenchwoman  surrounded  by  admirers,  some  of  whom  were 
themselves  distinguished.  Among  them  was  the  aged  WIELAXD.  There  was 
on  this,  and.  I  believe,  on  almost  every  other,  occasion,  but  one  lady  among 
the  guests :  in  this  instance  Kit  u  VON  KALB.  MADAME  DE  STAEL  did  not  affect 
to  conceal  her  preference  for  the  society  of  men  to  that  of  her  own  sex. " 

COUNT  D'OKSAY  related  of  MADAME  DE  STAEL,  whose  character  .was  dis- 
cussed, that  one  day,  being  on  a  sofa  with  MADAME  DE  RECAMIER,  one  who 
placed  himself  between  them  exclaimed  :  "  Me  voilk  entre  la  beauttS  et  1'esprit ! " 
She  replied:  "That  is  the  first  time  I  was  ever  complimented  for  beauty  !" 
MADAME  DE  R£CAMIER  was  thought  the  handsomest  woman  in  Paris,  but  was 
by  no  means  famed  for  esprit. — Crabb  Robinson's  Diary. 

"  MADAME  DE  STAEL  was  a  perfect  aristocrat,  and  her  sympathies  were 
wholly  with  the  great  and  prosperous.  She  saw  nothing  in  England  but  the 
luxury,  stupidity,  and  pride  of  the  Tory  aristocracy,  and  the  intelligence  and 
magnificence  of  the  Whig  aristocracy.  The  latter  talked  about  truth  and 
liberty  and  herself,  and  she  supposed  it  was  all  as  it  should  be.  As  to  the 
millions,  the  people,  she  never  enquired  into  their  situation.  She  had  a 


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horror  of  the  canaille,  but  anything  of  sangre  azttl  had  a  charm  for  her.  When 
she  was  dying  she  said ;  '  Let  me  die  in  peace  ;  let  my  last  moments  be  undis- 
turbed'. Yet  she  ordered  the  cards  of  every  visitor  to  be  brought  to  her. 
Among  them  was  one  from  the  Due  DE  RICHELIEU.  '  What ! '  exclaimed  she, 
indignantly;  'what!  have  you  sent  away  the  DUKE?  Hurry.  Fly  after  him. 
Bring  him  back.  Tell  him  that  though  I  die  for  all  the  world,  I  live  for  him.' " — 
Bowring'g  Autobr.  Recollections,  pp.  375-6. 

MADAME  DE  STAEL  prepared  her  bons-mots  with  elaborate  care,  some  being 
borrowed.  .  .  .  She  was  ugly,  and  not  of  an  intellectual  ugliness.  Her 
features  were  coarse,  and  the  ordinary  expression  rather  vulgar.  She  had  an 
ugly  mouth,  and  one  or  two  irregularly  prominent  teeth,  which  perhaps  gave 
her  countenance  an  habitual  gaiety.  Her  eye  was  full,  dark,  and  expressive ; 
and  when  she  declaimed,  which  was  almost  whenever  she  spoke,  she  looked 
eloquent,  and  one  forgot  that  she  was  plain.  On  the  whole,  she  was  singularly 
unfeminine  ;  and  if,  in  conversation,  one  forgot  she  was  ugly,  one  forgot  also 
that  she  was  a  woman. — J.  W.  Crokei's  Note-Books. — [ED.] 


THE  REV.  GILBERT  WAKEFIELD  (page  284). 

"  It  is  well  known  that  the  French  Revolution  turned  the  brains  of  many  of 
the  noblest  youths  in  England.  Indeed  when  such  men  as  COLERIDGE,  WORDSr 
WORTH,  SOUTHEY,  caught  the  infection,  no  wonder  that  those  who  partook  of 
their  sensibility,  but  had  a  very  small  portion  of  their  intellect,  were  carried 
away.  Many  were  ruined  by  the  errors  into  which  they  were  betrayed  ;  many 
also  lived  to  smile  at  the  follies  of  their  youth.  '  I  am  no  more  ashamed  of 
having  been  a  Republican,'  said  SOUTHEY,  'than  I  am  of  having  been  a  child.' 
The  opinions  held  led  to  many  political  prosecutions,  and  I  naturally  hail 
much  sympathy  with  the  sufferers.  I  find  in  my  journal,  Feb.  21, 1799  (says 
Crabb  Robinson) :  '  An  interesting  and  memorable  day.  It  was  the  day  on 
which  GILBERT  WAKEFIELD  was  convicted  of  a  seditious  libel,  and  sentenced 
to  two  years'  imprisonment.  This  he  suffered  in  Dorchester  Gaol,  which  he 
left  only  to  die.  Originally  of  the  Established  Church,  he  became  a  Unitarian, 
and  Professor  at  the  Hackney  College.  By  profession  he  was  a  scholar.  His 
best  known  work  was  an  edition  of  Lucretius.  He  had  written  against  PORSON'S 
edition  of  the  Hecuba  of  Euripides.'  It  is  said  that  PoRSON  was  at  a  dinner- 
party at  which  toasts  were  going  round,  and  a  name,  accompanied  by  an  appro- 
priate sentence  from  Shakespeare,  was  required  from  each  of  the  guests  in  suc- 
cession. Before  PORSON'S  turn  came,  he  had  disappeared  beneath  the  table, 
and  was  supposed  to  be  insensible  to  what  was  going  on.  This,  however,  was 
not  the  case,  for  when  a  toast  was  required  of  him,  he  staggered  up  and  gave  : 
'  Gilbert  Wakefield— what's  Hecuba  to  him,  or  he  to  Hecuba  ? '  WAKEFIELD  was 
a  political  fanatic.  He  had  the  pale  complexion  and  mild  features  of  a  Saint, 
was  a  most  gentle  creature  in  domestic  life,  and  a  very  amiable  man  ;  but  when 
he  took  part  in  any  religious  or  political  controversy,  his  pen  was  dipped  in 
gall.  The  occasion  of  the  imprisonment  before  alluded  to  was  a  letter  in  reply 
to  WATSON,  Bishop  of  Llandaff,  who  had  written  a  pamphlet  exhorting  the 
people  to  loyalty.  WAKEFIELD  asserted  that  the  poor,  the  labouring  classes, 
could  lose  nothing  by  French  conquest.  Referring  to  the  fable  of  the  Ass  and 
the  Trumpeter,  he  said  :  '  Will  the  enemy  make  me  carry  two  panniers  ? '  and 
declared  that,  if  the  French  came,  they  would  find  him  at  his  post  with  the 
illustrious  dead." — [ED.] 


JOHN  THELWALL  (page  284). 

"  COLERIDGE  and  SOUTHEY  spoke  of  THELWALL,  calling  him  merely  '  John '. 
SOUTHEY  said  :  '  He  is  a  good-hearted  man  ;  besides  we  ought  never  to  forget 
that  he  was  once  as  near  as  possible  being  hanged,  as  there  is  some  merit  in 
that '."—Crabb  Robinson's  Diary.— [ED.] 


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JEAN  PAUL  MARAT  (page  284). 

The  following  remarkable  account  of  this  scientific  monster  is  given  in  an 
"  Historical  Account  of  the  Warrington  Academy,  an  institution  in  Lancashire," 
published  in  the  Monthly  Rejyository,  by  the  Rev.  VV.  Turner,  of  Wakefleld. 

"After  the  departure  of  DR.  REINHOLD  FORSTER,  various  unsuccessful 
attempts  were  made  to  engage  a  foreigner  in  the  capacity  of  teacher  of  the 
modern  languages— a  M.  FANTIX  LA  TOUR,  a  M.  LE  MAITRE,  alias  MARA,  and  a 
MR.  LEWIS  GUERY  ;  but  none  of  them  continued  for  any  length  of  time.  .  .  . 
There  is  great  reason  to  believe  that  LE  MAITRE,  alias  MARA,  was  the  infamous 
MARAT.  .  .  .  It  is  known  that  he  was  in  England  about  this  time  [1774],  and 
published  in  London  "  A  Philosophical  Essay  on  the  connection  between  the 
Body  and  the  Soul  of  Man,"  and,  somewhere  in  the  country,  had  a  principal 
hand  in  printing,  in  quarto,  a  work  of  considerable  ability,  but  of  a  seditious 
tendency,  entitled—'  The  Chains  of  Slavery:  a  teork  wherein  the  clandestine  and 
villainous  Attempts  of  Princes  to  ruin  Liberty  are  pointed  out,  and  the  dreadj'iU 
Scenes  of  Despotism  disclosed,  etc.;  London,  told  by/.  Almon.  .  .  .  T.  Payne, 
and  Richardion  and  Urquhart,  777,4.'  MARA,  as  his  name  is  spelt  in  the 
Minutes  of  the  Academy,  very  soon  left  Warrington,  whence  he  went  to  Oxford, 
robbed  the  Ashmolean  Museum,  escaped  to  Ireland,  was  apprehended  in 
Dublin,  tried  and  convicted  in  Oxford,  under  the  name  of  LE  MAITRE,  and 
sentenced  to  the  hulks  at  Woolwich.  Here  one  of  his  old  pupils  at  Warrington. 
a  native  of  Bristol,  saw  him.  He  was  afterwards  a  Bookseller  in  Bristol,  and 
failed  ;  was  confined  in  the  gaol  of  that  city,  but  released  by  the  Society  there 
for  the  relief  of  prisoners  confined  for  small  sums.  One  of  that  society,  who 
had  previously  relieved  him  in  Bristol  Gaol,  afterwards  saw  him  hi  the  National 
Assembly  in  ]';iris  in  1792." 

Grave  doubts  have,  however,  been  thrown  upon  the  accuracy  of  the  above 
statement  by  HENRY  A.  BRIGHT,  B.A.,  in  a  paper  published  in  the  Transactions 
of  the  Historic  Society  of  Lancashire^  and  Cheshire,  8vo,  vol.  xi. ,  session  1858-9.  Yet 
it  was  an  establishment  that  might  have  attracted  such  a  mind  as  Marat's. 
"At  WARRINGTON  ACADEMY  (says  Mr.  Bright),  were  collected  some  of  the 
noblest  literati  of  their  day.  Here  the  free  thought  of  the  English  Presby- 
terians first  began  to  crystallize  into  the  Unitarian  theology  which  they  have 
since  maintained.  Here,  for  a  time,  was  the  centre  of  the  liberal  politics  and 
the  literary  taste  of  the  entire  county.  .  .  .  The  Academy  was  founded  in 
1757,  and  was  closed  in  1786.  It  was  visited  by  John  Howard,  W.  Roscoe.  T. 
Pennant,  Currie,  the  biographer  of  Burns,  <tc.  The  first  Tutors  appointed 
were  DR.  JOHN  TAYLOR  01  Norwich,  Tutor  in  Divinity,  MR.  HOLT  of  Kirkdale, 
Tutor  in  Natural  Philosophy,  MR.  DYER  of  London,  Tutor  in  Languages  ana 
Polite  Literature,  whose  duties,  however,  were  taken  by  MR.  (afterwards  the 
REV.  DR.)  AIKIX,  father  of  the  celebrated  Physician  and  Mrs.  Barbauld.  DR. 
PRIESTLEY  succeeded  DR.  AIKIN." 

DR.  PRIESTLEY,  who  is  addressed  by  COLERIDGE  as  "  Patriot,  and  Saint,  and 
Sage,"  was  succeeded  by  JOHN  REINHOLD  FORSTER,  a  German  Scholar  and 
Naturalist,  who  accompanied  Captain  Cook  in  his  second  voyage,  DR.  ENFIELD, 
author  of  The  Speaker,  and  the  REV.  GILBERT  WAKEFIELD,  were  Tutors.  Among 
the  students  were  MR.  SERJEANT  HEYWOOD  ;  ARCHIBALD  HAMILTON  ROWAN, 
the  Irish  rebel ;  the  REV.  H.  MALTHUS  ;  LORD  EXNISMORE  ;  SIR  JAMES 
CARNEGIE  of  Southesk ;  MR.  HENRY  BEAUKOY,  etc.,  all  strong  Whigs.  The 
name  of  neither  MARA  nor  LE  MAITRE  appears  on  the  Minutes  of  the  Academy. 

For  the  latest  contribution  to  the  history  of  MARAT'S  sojourn  in  England  we 
are  indebted  to  the  researches  of  MR.  H.  MORSB  STEPHENS,  of  Balliol  College, 
Oxford,  who,  in  his  elaborate  and  painstaking  History  of  the  French  Revolution 


(1886),  which  includes  facts  unknown  to  Carlyleand  earlier  historians,  gives  the 
following  account  of  that  "arch-destroyer1  ;  but,  as  he  calls  him,  "a  much 
maligned  individual" : — 


following  account  of  that 
igneu  individual "  : — 
'  JEAN  PAUL  MARAT,"  says  he,  "  was  born  at  Boudry,  near  Neufchatel,  in 


Switzerland,  on  April  13, 1742.  His  father,  who  spelt  his  name  '  MARA,'  was  a 
physician  of  some  ability,  and  on  being  exiled  from  his  native  island  of  Sardinia 
for  abandoning  the  Roman  Catholic  religion,  had  taken  up  his  residence  in 
Switzerland,  and  married  a  Swiss  Protestant.  JEAN  PAUL  was  the  eldest  of 


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three  sons ;  his  next  brother  settled  down  as  a  watchmaker  at  Geneva,  and  his 
youngest  brother  entered  the  service  of  the  Empress  Catherine,  and  dis- 
tinguished himself  in  the  Russian  army  under  the  title  of  the  Chevalier  de 
Boudry.  JEAN  PAUL  was  from  his  childhood  of  an  intensely  sensitive  and 
excitable  disposition,  and  also  so  quick  at  his  books  that  he  became  a  good 
classical  scholar,  and  acquainted  with  most  modern  languages.  As  his  chief 
taste,  however,  seemed  to  be  for  natural  science,  he  was  intended  to  follow  his 
father's  profession,  and  was,  at  the  age  of  eighteen,  sent  to  study  medicine  at 
the  University  of  Bordeaux.  He  there  obtained  a  thorough  knowledge  of  his 
profession,  but  devoted  himself  particularly  to  the  sciences  of  optics  and  elec- 
tricity. From  Bordeaux  he  went  to  Paris,  where  he  effected  a  remarkable  cure 
of  a  disease  of  the  eyes,  which  had  been  abandoned  as  hopeless  both  by 
physicians  and  quacks,  by  means  of  electricity.  From  Paris  he  went  to  Amster- 
dam, and,  finally,  to  LONDON,  where  he  set  up  in  practice  in  Church  Street,  Soho, 
then  one  of  the  most  fashionable  districts  in  London.  He  must  soon  have 
formed  a  good  practice,  for  he  stopped  in  London,  with  occasional  visits  to 
Dublin  and  Edinburgh,  for  ten  years,  and  only  left  it  to  take  up  an  appoint- 
ment at  the  French  court.  While  in  London  he  wrote  his  first  book,  and  in 
1772  and  1773,  he  published  the  first  two  volumes  of  a  philosophical  and  physio- 
logical Essay  on  Man.  The  point  he  discussed  was  the  old  problem  of  the  rela- 
tion between  body  and  mind,  and  he  treated  it  in  a  very  interesting  manner 
from  the  physiological  point  of  view.  He  held  some  extraordinary  theory 
about  the  existence  of  some  fluid  in  the  veins  which  acted  on  the  mind  ;  which, 
however,  does  not  impair  the  interest  of  his  inquiries  into  the  cause  of  dreams, 
or  diminish  the  respect  felt  for  hi_s  wide  reading  and  extensive  knowledge  both 
of  ancient  and  modern  philosophical  and  medical  authors.  H_e  shows  a  wide 
knowledge  of  Latin  and  Greek  literature,  and  while  writing  in  good  English 
freely  quotes  French,  German,  Italian,  and  Spanish  writers.  In  one  part  of  his 
book  he  declared  that  it  was  ridiculous  for  any  one  to  make  psychical  researches 
without  having  some  knowledge  of  anatomy  and  physiology,  and  openly  at- 
tacked HELVETIUS  for  despising  scientific  knowledge  in  his  famous  De  I'Esprit. 
VOLTAIRE  naturally  took  the  side  of  HELVETIUS,  and  did  the  young  author  the 
honour  of  noticing,  and  very  severely  criticising,  his  book.  MARAT  himself 
translated  it  into  French,  and  published  it  at  Amsterdam  in  1775.  His  next 
work  was  of  a  political  character.  He  had  got  mixed  up  with  some  of  the 
popular  societies  in  England,  which  were  striving  to  obtain  a  thorough  reform 
of  the  representation  of  the  people  in  the  House  of  Commons,  and,  in  1774, 
published  a  work,  which  he  entitled  The  Chains  of  Slavery.  In  this  book,  which 
is  partly  historical  and  partly  political,  he  begs  the  electors  to  take  more  care  in 
the  choice  of  their  representatives.  It  is  written  in  a  very  declamatory  style, 
and  strikes  the  note  of  the  responsibility  of  representatives  to  their  constituents, 
which  is  the  key-note  of  all  his  political  ideas.  The  book  is  published  in  quarto, 
and  is  printed  on  fine  paper,  so  that  it  can  hardly  have  been  meant  to  appeal  to 
the  populace,  but  it,  nevertheless,  procured  him  the  honorary  membership  of 
the  popular  societies  of  Newcastle  and  other  great  northern  cities.  Subsequently 
he  again  returned  to  his  profession,  and  after  publishing  a  medical  tract  in 
1775,  of  which  no  copy  is  known  to  exist,  he  published  An  Inquiry  into  the 
Nature,  Cause,  and  Cure  of  a  singular  Disease  of  the  Eyes,  in  1776.  [See  Academy  of 
September  23,  1882.]  In  this  little  pamphlet  there  is  no  violent  language ; 
it  describes  the  disease  and  the  cases  he  had  cured  in  perfectly  simple  language, 
and  shows,  at  least,  that  he  was  no  mere  quack,  but  a  scientific  physician.  On 
June  30,  1775,  he  had,  while  on  a  visit  to  Scotland,  received  the  honorary  degree 
of  M.D.  from  the  University  of  St.  Andrews  for  his  eminence  as  a  doctor,  and  had 

Srobably  received  similar  compliments  from  other  Universities,  because,  on 
une  24, 1777,  JEAN  PAUL  MARAT,  '  me'decin  de  plusieurs  faculte's  d'Angleterre,' 
was  appointed,  for  his  good  character  and  high  reputation  as  a  doctor,  physician 
to  the  body-guard  of  the  Comte  d'Artois,  with  a  salary  of  a  thousand  livres  a 
year  and  allowances.  To  take  up  this  court  appointment  he  moved  to  Paris, 
and  soon  acquired  a  large  practice  there,  and  the  name  of  '  physician  of  the 
incurables,'  from  the  number  of  hopeless  cases  he  was  successful  in  treating. 
He  also  moved  in  the  best  society  about  the  court,  and  won  the  affections  of 
the  Marquise  de  I'Aubespine  for  saving  her  life.  For  some  reason  or  other,  most 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  297 

probably  because  he  had  obtained  a  competent  fortune,  and  desired  to  satisfy 
his  ambition,  he  resigned  his  court  appointment  in  1783,  and  devoted  himself  to 
science.  He  had  long  observed  the  phenomena  of  Heat,  Light,  and  Electricity, 
and  in  the  course  of  the  next  five  years  published  the  result  of  his  experiments, 
and  presented  them  to  the  Academy  of  Scienca.  His  hard  work  won  him  the 
friendship  of  BENJAMIN  FRANKLIN,  but  the  violence  with  which  he  attacked  his 
adversaries,  and  his  audacity  in  doubting  the  conclusions  of  NEWTON,  prevented 
him  from  obtaining  a  seat  in  the  Academy  of  Sciences.  When  he  recognised 
that  this  hostility  to  himself  prevented  due  recognition  of  his  work,  he  deter- 
mined to  win  the  approbation  of  the  Academy  by  concealing  his  name  ;  and  his 
translation  of  the  Optics  of  NEWTON,  which  was  covered  by  the  name  of  M,  de 
Beauzte,  and  published  in  1788,  was  at  once  crowned  by  the  very  Academy  which 
had  rejected  liim. 

"  His  political  work  during  these  years  was  confined  to  a  treatise,  in  imitation 
of  BECCARIA,  on  the  subject  of  Punishments.  The  approach  of  the  States- 
General,  however,  revived  his  political  enthusiasm,  and  in  the  March  of  1789, 
when  he  believed  himself  to  be  dying,  he  published  his  Offrande  a.  la  Patrie, 
which  was  followed  in  quick  succession  by  a  supplement  and  other  pamphlets. 
Of  these,  distinctly  the  most  able  is  the  Tableau  da  Vices  de  la  Constitution 
Anglaise,  which  he  presented  to  the  Assembly  in  September,  1789.  In  it  he 
points  out  what  he  nad  learnt  in  the  popular  societies  of  England,  that  the 
English  people  was  by  no  means  so  well  governed  as  it  was  supposed  to  be  ; 
that  the  influence  of  the  king  and  the  ministry  was  overwhelming  through  the 
extent  of  patronage,  and  that  the  rich  there  bought  seats  in  the  House  of  Com- 
mons as  they  bought  estates. 

"  MAKAT  then  felt  that  he  could  not  express  himself  frequently  enough  in 
pamphlets,  and  on  September  12  appeared  the  first  number  of  a  journal  written 
entirely  by  himself,  called  the  Journal  du  Peuple,  which  title  was  changed  to 
that  of  Ami  du  Peuple,  or  The  People's  Friend,  with  the  fourth  number. 

"  To  understand  the  man,  it  is  necessary  to  get  rid  of  preconceived  ideas. 
Suspicious  and  irritable,  excitable  and  sensitive  to  an  extreme,  he  attacked 
everybody,  and  attacked  them  all  with  unaccustomed  violence ;  but  with  all 
this,  he  was  in  private  life  a  highly  educated  gentleman.  The  extent  of  his 
attainments  appears  from  his  numerous  works,  and  it  must  be  remembered  that 
he  could  not  for  years  have  been  a  fashionable  physician  and  held  a  court 
appointment  without  being  perfectly  polite  and  well-bred.  His  faults  arose 
from  his  irritable  and  suspicious  nature,  and  years  of  persecution  made  him 
half-insane  towards  the  end  of  his  life  ;  but  in  September,  1789,  he  was  in  perfect 
possession  of  his  senses,  and  the  very  popularity  of  his  journal  showed  how  con- 
genial his  gospel  of  suspicion  was  to  the  Parisians."— [ED.] 


JEAN  PAUL  MARAT'S  SISTER. 

The  Right  Hon.  J.  W.  Croker,  in  a  letter  to  John  Winter  Jones,  dated  23rd 
October,  1854,  says  that  COLIN,  who  ha<l  been  Marat's  printer  or  publisher, 
"introduced  him  to  Marat's  sister,  who  was  as  like  her  brother,  he  said — 
and  as  from  all  pictures  and  busts  I  readily  believed— as  '  dtux  gouttes 
d'eav.'.  She  was  very  small,  very  ugly,  very  sharp,  and  a  great  politician. 
Her  ostensible  livelihood  was  making  watch-springs,  but  she  told  me  she  was 
pretty  easy  in  her  circumstances,  and  I  either  gathered  from  her,  or  saw  cause 
to  suspect,  that  she  had  some  secret  charitable  help."— [ED.] 


LAR^VEILLERE-LEPAUX  (page  283). 

LAR^VEILLERE-LEPAUX  left  orders  in  his  will  that  his  M<uit>i>i  were  to  be 
printed  and  published.  His  heirs  were  not  proud  of  the  part  the  DIRECTOR 
had  played,  so,  after  complying  with  the  terms  of  his  will  and  printing  the 
Memoirs,  they  dtttroytd  the  whole  Usite  at  once  ;  and  the  only  copy  extant  is  the 
one  which,  in  accordance  with  the  law  of  France,  was  sent  to  the  Bitiliothequt 
Rationale  at  Paris. 


298  POETEY   OF 

THE  THEOPHILANTHEOPISTS. 

THESE  (Gr.  "  Lovers  of  Gods  and  Men  ")  were  a  sect  of  Deists  which  appeared 
in  France  amid  the  confusion  and  disorder  of  the  first  Revolution.  While  the 
State  was  indifferent  to  all  forms  of  Religion,  and  the  Republican  Directory  was 
afraid  of  the  Christianity  which  prevailed  in  the  Church,  a  felt  consciousness 
of  the  necessity  of  some  religion  led  many  to  adopt  a  form  of  worship  adapted 
to  Natural  Religion. 

"  This  Sect "  (says  SOUTHEY,  in  the  Quarterly  Review,  vol.  xxviii.)  "  began  with 
more  circumstances  in  their  favour  than  ever  occurred  to  facilitate  the  estab- 
lishment of  a  religion  or  of  a  sect.  M»ny  persons  of  considerable  influence  and 
reputation  engaged  in  the  project  with  zeal,  and  it  was  patronised  by  LA 
REVEILLERE  L^PAUX,  one  of  the  Directory.  .  .  .  His  motives  for  putting  him- 
self at  the  head  of  the  Theophilanthropists  are  said  to  have  been  twofold  :  if 
the  scheme  succeeded,  he  intended  to  become  their  High  Priest ;  and  he  hated 
Christianity.  Through  his  means  the  Theophilanthropists  obtained  a  decree 
from  the  Government  giving  them  a  right  of  holding  their  meetings  in  the 
Churches,  as  national  buildings,  which  were  open  to  any  religion,  but  belonged 
to  none. 

"  Nearly  twenty  Churches  in  Paris  were  taken  possession  of  ;  but  by  occupy- 
ing so  many,  they  injured  themselves.  .  .  .  They  took  up  too  extended  a  position, 
and  had  neither  numbers  nor  means  answerable  to  the  scale  upon  which  they 
set  out.  .  .  .  Their  Service  began  at  noon,  and  lasted  about  an  hour  and  a  half. 
It  was,  they  said,  a  worship  for  those  who  had  no  other,  and  a  moral  society 
for  those  who  had.  The  Ritual  consisted  of  Prayers,  Hymns  original  or  selected 
from  the  best  French  Poets,  readings  from  their  Manual,  and  Discourses.  The 
Hymns  were,  in  general,  judicious,  and  set  to  good  music,  and  the  Prayers  well 
composed  ;  but  had  their  books  been  stript  of  all  that  they  had  borrowed  from 
the  Gospel,  and  from  the  works  of  Christian  writers,  they  would  have  been 
meagre  indeed.  In  one  part  of  the  Service  there  was  a  short  pause,  during 
which  the  congregation  were  expected  to  consider  each  in  silence  what  his  own 
conduct  had  been  since  the  last  of  these  meetings.  A  basket  of  fruit  or 
flowers,  according  to  the  season,  was  placed  upon  the  altar,  as  a  mark  of  ac- 
knowledgment for  the  bounties  of  the  Creator ;  and  over  the  altar  was  the 
inscription,  Nous  crayons  a  I' existence  de  Dieu,  et  a  I'immortalite  de  I'dnie.  .  .  .  LA 
R^VEILLERE,  in  a  speech  at  the  Institute,  declaiming  against  Christianity,  as 
being  opposed  to  the  liberty  of  mankind,  expressed  his  wish  that  a  form  of 
religion  were  adopted,  which  should  have  only  a  couple  of  articles.  He  wished 
also  for  a  religion  without  priests  ;  and  this,  it  was  pleasantly  observed,  would 
be  like  a  Directory  without  a  Director. 

"This  was  the  Creed  of  the  Thcophil  anthropists.  And  on  each  side  of  it,  the 
following  sentences  were  inscribed  in  their  temples,  to  take  place  of  the 
Decalogue : — 

"  '  Adore  God,  cherish  your  fellow-creatures  ;  render  yourselves  useful  to  your 

country. 

Good  is  whatever  tends  to  preserve  man,  or  to  perfectionate  him. 
Evil  is  whatever  tends  to  destroy  him,  or  to  deteriorate  him. 
Children,  honour  your  fathers  and  mothers  ;  obey  them  with  affection,  solace 

their  old  age.    Fathers  and  mothers,  instruct  your  children. 
Wives,  behold  in  your  husbands  the  heads  of  your  houses.    Husbands,  love 

your  wives,  and  render  yourselves  mutually  happy.' 

"  At  Marriage  the  bride  and  bridegroom  were  to  be  coupled  with  ribands,  or 
garlands  of  flowers,  the  ends  of  which  were  to  be  held  on  each  side  by  the 
elders  of  their  respective  families.  The  Bride  received  a  ring  from  her  husband, 
and  a  medal  of  union  from  the  head  of  the  family.  There  was  a  rite  also  for 
infants.  .  .  .  When  a  member  died,  the  other  members  of  the  Society  were 
invited  to  place  a  flower  upon  the  urn,  and  pray  the  Creator  to  receive  the 
deceased  into  his  bosom.  The  Decades  and  National  Holidays  were  observed 
hy  these  Anti-Christians,  and  they  had  four  Holidays  of  their  own,  for  Socrates, 
St.  Vincent  de  Paule,  Jean  Jacques  Rousseau,  and  Washington,— oddly 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  299 

assorted  names  !  Two  of  them,  however,  stand  well  together  in  this  kalendar, 
for  the  one,  who  was  a  Christian,  established  the  Foundling  Hospital  at  Paris  ; 
and  the  other,  who  was  a  sentimentalist,  a  philosopher,  and  a  Theophilan- 
thropist,  sent  his^own  children  to  it.  ... 

"  LA  REVEILLERE  used  to  take  praise  to  himself  for  having,  in  his  Direc- 


Deism  they  regarded  as  ridiculous.  ...  In  the  way  of  pecuniary  aid,  he 
could  obtain  little : — btauoovp  <f  argent  was  what  the  Directory  were  ac- 
customed to  demand,  not  to  give.  .  .  . 

"  Their  Service  at  Paris  was  numerously  attended  while  it  was  a  new 
spectacle,  and  the  subject  of  conversation  ;  but  more  than  two-thirds  of  the 
persons  thus  assembled  were  idlers.  But  this  concourse  soon  abated ;  there 
was  nothing  attractive  in  the  ceremonies,  nothing  to  impose  upon  the 
imagination  or  the  senses.  A  propagandist  reported  from  Montr<suil  that 
the  readings  and  orations  had  been  heard  by  an  audience  aride  de  morale, 
but  he  had  observed  with  pain  that  the  materiel  of  the  worship  was  not 
what  it  should  have  been.  ...  It  was  got  up  at  Bourges  in  better  style ; 
the  orator  there  officiated  in  a  white  sash  ornamented  with  blue  flowers, 
before  an  altar  upon  which  an  orange  tree  was  placed :  and  at  the  fete  des 
fpoux,  the  Theophilanthropists  carried  two  pigeons  in  procession,  as  an 
emblem  of  conjugal  tenderness,  and  placed  them  upon  the  altar  of  the  country  '.  " 


[The  literary  association  of  LAMB  with  COLERIDGE  and  SOIJTHEY  [says 
SiaT.  N.  TALFOURD,  in  his  life  of  LAMB,]  drew  upon  him  the  hostility  of  the 
young  scorners  of  The  Anti-Jacobin,  who,  luxuriating  in  boyish  pride  and  aristo- 
cratic patronage,  tossed  the  arrows  of  their  wit  against  all  charged  with  inno- 
vation, whether  in  politics  or  poetry,  and  cared  little  whom  they  wounded. 
No  one  could  be  more  innocent  than  LAMB  of  political  heresy  ;  no  one  more 
strongly  opposed  to  new  theories  in  morality — which  he  always  regarded  with 
disgust.  The  very  first  number  of  The  Anti-Jacobin  Review  ami  Mayazine  [this 
was,  however,  a  new  work,  by  different  hands,  but  imbued  with  the  same  spirit 
as  The  Anti-Jacobin]  was  adorned  by  a  caricature  of  GILLRAY'S,  in  which  COLE- 
RIDGE and  SOUTHKY  were  introduced  with  asses'  heads,  and  LLOYD  and  LAMB 
as  toad  and  frog.  In  the  number  of  July,  1798  [of  the  original  Anti-Jacobin] 
appeared  the  well-known  poem  of  JVeic  Morality,  in  which  all  the  prominent 
objects  of  the  hatred  of  these  champions  of  religion  and  order  were  introduced 
as  offering  homage  to  LEPAUX,  a  French  charlatan,—  of  whose  existence  LAMB 
had  never  even  heard.  Not  content  with  thus  confounding  persons  of  the  most 
opposite  opinions  and  the  most  various  characters  in  one  common  libel,  the 
party  returned  to  the  charge  in  their  number  for  September  [of  The  Anti-Jucoltin 
Review},  and  denounced  the  young  poets  in  a  parody  on  the  Ode  to  the  Patsimis, 
under  the  title  of  The  Anarchists.  They  are  reprinted  in  the  present  volume. — ED.] 

[The  cause  of  Coleridge,  Southey,  Lloyd,  and  I.  null,  being  thus  satirized  as 
persons  of  the  same  politics,  was  the  conjoint  publication  of  their  works.  In 
the  spring  of  1796,-COLEltlD(iE  published  vol.  i.  of  his  Juvenile  Poenu,  including 
three  Sonnets  by  LAMB  ;  in  May.  17i>7,  there  appeared  a  new  edition,  with  many 
poems  by  LLOYD  and  LAMB.  The  Fall  of  IWxtpierre,  an  historic  drama,  was 
published  Sept.  22,  1794 :  the  first  act  written  by  COLERIDGE,  the  second  and 
third  by  SOUTHEY.  It  is  not  difficult  to  understand  why  COLEKIDGE  was  so 
severely  attacked  by  the  Government  writers.  In  17'.»5,  at  the  early  age  of  23, 
he  delivered,  at  Bristol,  some  public  lectures,  reflecting  in  warm  terms  on  the 
measures  of  PITT.  Three  of  them  were  published  at  Bristol  at  the  end  of  1705 
— the  first  two  together,  with  the  title  of  Concionts  ail  Populum ;  the  third  as 
The  Plot  Discovered.  The  eloquent  passage  in  conclusion  of  the  first  of  these 
addresses  was  written  by  SOCTHRY.  That  he  was  considered  by  ministers  a 
dangerous  character  is  proved  by  his  having  been  for  some  monfhs  watched  by 
a  Government  spy  while  residing  at  Stowey,  providing  for  his  scanty  mainten- 
ance by  writing  verses  for  '/'/<•  Morning  Post.  It  was  his  fortune  also  to  excite 


300  POETRY  OF 

the  ire  of  BUONAPARTE,  by  his  anti-gallican  writings  in  the  same  paper ;  and  a 
benevolent  intimation  of  his  danger  by  Baron  von  Humboldt  and  Cardinal 
Fesch  alone  prevented  his  being  arrested  while  in  Italy.  (See  p.  284.) 

SOUTHEY  thus  alludes  to  the  attack  upon  him  (by  GILLRAY,  in  his  famous 
caricature),  in  a  letter  addressed  to  C.  W.  W.  WYNN,  dated  Hereford,  August 
15, 1798  : — "  I  have  seen  myself  Bedfordized,  and  it  has  been  a  subject  of  much 
amusement.  HOLCROFT'S  likeness  is  admirably  preserved.  I  know  not  what 
poor  LAMB  has  done  to  be  croaking  there.  What  I  think  the  worst  part  of  The 
Anti-Jacobin  abuse  is  the  lumping  together  men  of  such  opposite  principles; 
this  was  stupid.  We  should  have  all  been  welcoming  the  Director,  not  the  Theo- 
pkilanthrope.  The  conductors  of  The  Anti-Jacobin  will  have  much  to  answer  for 
in  thus  inflaming  the  animosities  of  this  country.  They  are  labouring  to  pro- 
duce the  deadly  hatred  of  Irish  faction ;  perhaps  to  produce  the  same  end. 
Such  an  address  as  you  mention  might  probably  be  of  great  use  ;  that  I  could 
assist  you  in  it  is  less  certain.  I  do  not  feel  myself  at  all  calculated  for  anything 
that  requires  methodical  reasoning  ;  and  though  you  and  I  should  agree  in  the 
main  object  of  the  pamphlet,  our  opinions  are_  at  root  different.  The  old  systems 
of  government,  I  think,  must  fall ;  but  in  this  country  the  immediate  danger  is 
on  the  other  hand, — from  an  unconstitutional  and  unlimited  power.  BURLEIGH 
saw  how  a  Parliament  might  be  employed  against  the  people,  and  MONTESQUIEU 
prophesied  the  fall  of  English  liberty  when  the  Legislature  should  become  cor- 
rupt. You  will  not  agree  with  me  in  thinking  his  prophecy  fulfilled.  Violent 
men  there  undoubtedly  are  among  the  democrats,  as  they  are  always  called  ; 
but  is  there  any  one  among  them  whom  the  ministerialists  will  allow  to  be 
moderate  ?  The  Anti-Jacobin  certainly  speaks  the  sentiments  of  Government.' 


WORDSWORTH,  COLERIDGE,  SOUTHEY  (page  284). 

["  The  passionate  verdicts  given,  both  pro  and  con,  in  reference  to  WORDS- 
WORTH, COLERIDGE,  and  SOUTHEY,  may  now  be  looked  back  upon  with  some 
wonder,  but  all  three  had  made  themselves  obnoxious  to  the  charge  of  rene- 
gadism.  WORDSWORTH  had  accepted  the  office  of  stamp-distributor  from  Lord 
Lonsdale;  SOUTHEY,  after  attempting  to  suppress  his  demagogical  drama  of 
Wat  Tyler,  became  a  violent  Tory,  bringing  a  hot  partisanship  into  the  ranks_  to 
which  he  fled ;  and  COLERIDGE,  a  Tom-Paineite  in  politics  and  a  preaching 
Unitarian,  ended  by  adopting  all  the  doctrines  of  orthodoxy."— Sir  John  Bovnring. 
—ED.] 


EDMUND  BURKE  (page  286). 

"  ADAiRtoldme  a  great  many  things  about  BURKE,  and  Fox,  and  FITZPAT- 
RICK,  and  all  the  eminent  men  of  that  time  with  whom  he  lived  when  he  was 
young.  He  said  .  .  .  that  FITZPATRICK  was  the  most  agreeable  of  them 
all,  but  HARE  the  most  brilliant.  BURKE'S  conversation  was  delightful,  so 
luminous  and  instructive.  He  was  very  passionate ;  and  ADAIR  said  that  the 
first  time  he  ever  saw  him  he  unluckily  asked  him  some  question  about  the  wild 
parts  of  Ireland,  when  BURKE  broke  out :  '  You  are  a  fool  and  a  blockhead. 
There  are  no  wild  parts  in  Ireland.'  .  .  .  There  was  an  attempt  to  bring 
about  a  reconciliation  between  him  and  Fox,  and  a  meeting  for  that  purpose 
took  place  of  all  the  leading  men,  at  Burlington  House.  BURKE  was  on  the 
point  of  yielding  when  his  son  suddenly  made  his  appearance  unbidden,  and, 
on  being  told  what  was  going  on,  he  said :  '  My  father  shall  be  no  party  to  such 
a  compromise,'  took  BURKE  aside,  and  persuaded  him  to  reject  the  overtures. 
That  son  ADAIR  described  as  the  most  disagreeable,  violent,  and  wrong-headed 
of  men,  but  the  idol  of  his  father,  who  used  to  say  that  he  united  all  his  own 
talents  and  acquirements  with  those  of  Fox  and  everybody  else,  &c."— See  The 
Greville  Memoirs,  i.  136-7.— [ED.] 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  301 

[The  following  remarkable  passage  occurs  in  a  pamphlet  written  by  TOH 
PAINE,  entitled  :  Thonuu  Paine  to  the  People  of  England,  on  the  Jnnuinn  of  Eng- 
land: Philadelphia,  printed  at  the  Temple  of  Reason  Pre»»,  Arch  Street,  1804. 

"  The  original  plan,  formed  in  the  time  of  the  Directory  (but  now  much  more 
extensive)  was  to  build  one  thousand  boats,  each  sixty  feet  long,  sixteen  feet 
broad,  to  draw  about  two  feet  water,  to  carry  a  twenty-four  or  thirty -six  pounder 
in  the  head  and  a  field-piece  in  the  stern,  to  be  run  out  as  soon  as  they  touched 
ground.  Each  boat  was  to  carry  a  hundred  men,  making  in  the  whole  one 
hundred  thousand,  and  to  row  with  twenty  or  twenty-Hve  oars  on  a  side. 
Bonaparte  was  appointed  to  the  command,  and  by  an  agreement  between  him 
and  me,  I  was  to  accompany  him,  as  the  intention  of  the  expedition  was  to  give 
the  people  of  England  an  opportunity  of  forming  a  government  for  themselves, 
and  thereby  bring  about  peace."— ED.] 


THE   COURIER. 

THE  COURIER,  in  the  time  of  the  war,  was  the  great  paper;  it  obtained  a  large 
circulation,  and  consequently  exercised  considerable  influence.  It  was  started 
by  JOHN  PARRY  in  1792,  and  he  carried  it  on  for  some  years  with  tolerable 
success,  till  he  was  ruined  in  1799  by  a  government  prosecution  fora  libel  on  the 
Emperor  of  Russia.  It  was  bought  by  DANIEL  STUART,  who  left  The  Morning 
Post  for  The  Courier  in  1803.  During  three  years,  says  he,  at  the  time  of  the 
overthrow  of  BUONAPARTE,  The  Courier,  by  the  able  management  of  PETER 
STREET,  who  was  editor  and  half-proprietor,  sold  steadily  upwards  of  8000  per 
day  ;  during  one  fortnight  it  sold  upwards  of  10,000  daily.  At  the  end  of  1809, 
S.  ')'.  COLERIDGE  contributed  to  it  some  Essays  on  the  Spaniards  ;  and  in  1811 
he  wrote  for  it  on  a  salary.  At  this  time  the  paper  was  much  under  ministerial 
direction.  From  about  the  year  1818  till  1829  The  Courier  was  conducted  by  W. 
MUDFORD,  with  whom  WILLIAM  STEWART  was  a  proprietor.  After  1819  D. 
STUART  took  no  interest  in  it,  and  parted  with  his  last  share  in  it  in  1822. 
After  the  year  1825,  JAMES  STUART,  a  Scotch  gentleman  of  great  talent  and 
respectability — the  same  that  unfortunately  killed  SIR  ALEXANDER  BOSWELL 
in  a  duel,  and  was  author  of  Travels  in  the  United  States— became  editor.  True 
to  his  principles,  he  gave  in  this  capacity  every  support  in  his  power  to  the 
Whig  or  Liberal  party.  He  was  appointed  by  LORD  MELBOURNE  to  the  situa- 
tion of  Factory  Inspector,  which  he  held  till  his  death,  at  the  age  of  74,  in  1849. 
When  JAS.  STUART  obtained  his  factory  appointment,  SAM.  LAMAN  BLANCHAKD 
became  editor.  The  paper  having  become,  like  other  evening  papers,  less  pro- 
fitable than  of  old,  the  proprietors  sold  it  to  the  party  they  had  so  long  opposed. 
It  took  Tory  politics  ;  LAMAN  BLANCHARD,  of  course,  resigned  ;  and  a  few  short 
years  were  sufficient  to  destroy  a  journal  which  had  once  been  the  most  valuable 
newspaper  property  in  England.  Its  last  number  appeared  6th  July,  1842. 

It  is  a  curious,  but  not  creditable,  circumstance  that  The  Conrie,-  was  in  the 
habit  of  re-printing,  from  year  to  year,  without  acknowledgment,  the  able  lead- 
ing articles  from  Tlie  Liverpool  Courier,  written  by  the  Rev.  Richard  Watson, 
secretary  to  the  Wesleyan  Missionary  Society,  by  whom,  in  conjunction  with 
his  friend,  Mr.  Kaye,  this  newspaper  was  established  upon  loyal  and  constitu- 
tional principles. 

"  The  Courier,  in  1814,  was  supplied  by  R.  Peel,  Lord  Palmerston,  and  J.  W. 
Croker,  with  political  squibs  and  lyrics,  resembling  in  general  features  The  Anti- 
Jacobin  and  The  Roltiatl.  The  verses  are  chiefly  parodies  of  Moore's  Irith 
Melodiex,  or  of  Byron's  songs,  and  are  far  above  the  ordinary  level  of  such  coin- 
positions.  .  .  .  The  various  pieces  were  collected  and  published  in  1815,  under 
the  title  of  The  New  Whig  Guide." — Croker  Pajxrt,  vol.  i.,  p.  58. 

This  statement  contains  several  inaccuracies.  The  pieces  forming  The  New 
Whig  Guule  were  first  collected  and  published  in  1819,  and  not  in  /•>/•,  for 
BYRON'S  Fare  Hue  well  was  not  written  till  April,  1816.  The  parody  on  it  was 
entitled  The  Leader'a  Lament.  By  the  Right  Hon.  Geor;/e  Pontonlni.  A.  Hayward 
says  in  his  review  of  The  Poetry  of  the  Anti-Jacobin,  in  The  EJin>>nrgh  Review, 
1858— that  "  CANNING  has  been  traditionally  credited  with  the  parody  of  Moore's. 


302  POETBY   OF 

Believe  me,  if  all  those  endearing  young  charms,  the  gentleman  addressed  being  a 
distinguished  commoner  afterwards  ennobled  (the  first  LORD  METHUEX),  who 
was  far  from  meriting  the  character  [of  a  foolish  fop]  thereby  fastened  on  him  ". 
The  other  parodies  were  by  JOHN  CALCRAFT,  the  Hon.  W.  H.  LYTTELTON, 
DUDLEY  NORTH,  M.P.,  KIRKMAN  FINLAY,  M.P.  for  Glasgow,  &c.  MR. 
METHUEX,  in  return,  wrote  many  clever  squibs  and  parodies  against  the 
Tories,  which  were  collected,  under  the  title  of  The  New  Tory  Guide,  and  repro- 
duced, like  its  rivals  in  1819.  "  Talking  of  The  Morning  Chronicle,"  says  T. 
MOORE  (Diary,  19th  March,  1831),  "  PAUL  METHUEX  told  us  he  was  the  author 
of  almost  all  those  about  The  Rat  Club  ;  which  are  certainly  some  of  the  best." 

THE  STAR. 

THE  STAR,  the  first  London  daily  Evening  Newspaper,  was  started  in  1788  by 
PETER  STUART,  brother  to  DAXIEL  STUART,  of  The  Morning  Post.  Its  first 
editor  was  ANDREW  MACDOXALD,  author  of  Vimoiida,  a  tragedy,  and  other 
works  :  and  after  him  another  Scottish  poet,  John  Mayne,  author  of  The  Siller 
Gun,  was  editor.  KOBERT  BURXS  was  offered  an  engagement  to  write  poetry 
for  it,  at  the  rate  of  one  guinea  an  article  per  week.  The  arrangement  was  not 
completed.  It  was  to  PETER  STUART  that  BURXS  addressed  his  "Poem, 
written  to  a  gentleman  who  had  sent  him  a  Newspaper,  and  offered  to  continue  it 
free  of  expense".  The  facetious  Bob  Allen,  of  whom  Charles  Lamb  has  such 
pleasant  reminiscences,  was  for  many  years  a  contributor  to  this  paper.  Sub- 
sequently, DR.  A.  TILLOCH,  editor  of  The  Philosophical  Magazine,  was  for  many 
years  editor  of  The  Star.  After  Oct.  15,  1831,  The  Star  became  incorporated 
with  The  Albion  newspaper,  under  the  title  of  The  Albion  and  Evening  .Star. 

The  Star  was  during  many  years  the  leading  newspaper  on  the  Whig  side, 
CAMPBELL  the  poet  being  one  of  its  writers  after  1804,  when  he  was  engaged  at 
a  salary  of  four  guineas  a  week.  The  clear  profits  of  this  paper  in  1820  were 
said,  on  apparently  good  authority,  to  amount  to  £6000. 

THE  MORNING  CHRONICLE. 

THE  MORNING  CHRONICLE  was,  with  one  exception  (The  Public  Ledger,  which 
started  in  1760),  the  oldest  of  the  daily  papers  up  to  the  period  of  its  discon- 
tinuance March  19,  1862.  The  latest  number  in  the  British  Museum  is  dated 
Dec.  31,  1861. 

It  was  established  on  Whig  principles,  -28th  June,  1769,  by  WILLIAM  WOOD- 
FALL,  who  carried  it  on  with  great  success  till  1789. 

Woodfall,  in  addition  to  other  talents  requisite  to  the  success  of  a  newspaper, 
possessed  two,  which  were  of  essential  service  to  it,  namely,  his  prodigious 
memory,  which  enabled  him  to  report  Parliamentary  Debates  without  the  aid 
of  notes,  and  the  excellence  of  his  Theatrical  Criticisms,  which,  as  MR.  Fox 
BOURXE,  in  his  copious  and  valuable  work  on  Engluh  Keicspapers,  2  vols.,  Svo.,  18S7 
—one  to  which  the  editor  of  the  present  publication  has  been  under  frequent 
obligations— says,  "  are  a  neglected  mine  of  wealth  for  students  of  Theatrical 
History  ". 

On  WOODFALL'S  death,  in  1803,  it  was  sold  to  JAMES  PERRY,  who  borrowed 
£500  from  RAXSOME  &  Co.,  the  bankers,  and  some  more  from  BELLAMY,  the 
wine  merchant — who  was  also  caterer  and  doorkeeper  to  the  House  of  Com- 
mons— and  entered  into  partnership  with  a  Charterhouse  schoolmaster  named 
GRAY,  who  had  just  received  a  legacy  of  £500.  With  that  joint  capital,  the  two 
bought  The  Chronicle,  the  DUKE  OF  NORFOLK  making  PERRY  a  present  of  a 
house  in  the  Strand,  which  he  converted  into  a  new  publishing  office.  A  few 
other  influential  Whigs,  also,  contributed  a  further  sum,  which,  as  the  late  SIR 
ROBERT  ADAIR,  who  is  so  often  satirized  in  The  Anti-Jacobin,  and  who  was  a 
subscriber  to  the  fund,  informed  the  editor  of  the  present  work,  was  £300. 

PERRY  was  on  good  terms  with  his  contributors,  and  made  The  Morning 
Chronicle  a,  more  prosperous  and  influential  journal  than  had  ever  before  been 
known  in  England.  GRAY  provided  the  heavy  articles,  PERRY  those  of  lighter 
•sort ;  and  after  GRAY'S  death,  which  happened  when  he  had  been  part  proprietor 
for  only  a  few  years,  other  writers  were  employed,  among  them  JAS.  MACKIX- 


THE    ANTI- JACOBIN.  303 

TOSH  and  SHERIDAN,  anil  in  later  times  T.  CAMPBELL  and  T.  MOORE,  who  con- 
tributed verse,  and  JOHN  CAMPBELL,  then  a  young  barrister,  who  was  the 
Theatrical  Critic,  and  was  still  so  in  1810.  T.  CAMPBELL,  on  coining  to  London 
in  1802,  was  engaged  as  a  political  writer,  but  this  not  being  his  forte,  he,  with 
great  judgment,  confined  himself  to  poetical  pieces,  among  which  were  Ye 
Mariners  of  England,  and  Tlte  Exile  of  Erin.  PERRY  had  another  and  equally 
famous  contributor.  In  Sept., 1793,  S.  T.  COLERIDGE,  then  aged  nineteen,  ''sent 
a  poem  of  a  few  lines  to  PERRY,  soliciting  a  loan  of  a  guinea  for  a  distressed 
author,"  which  prayer  was  immediately  granted.  In  179(5,  he  accepted  an  offer 
of  Perry's  to  write  in  it,  but  the  arrangement  was  never  carried  out.  Jn  later 
years,  COLERIDGE  wrote  some  other  poems  for  Tht  Morning  Chronicle,  and  his 
friend  CHARLES  LAMB  was  an  occasional  writer  of  prose  for  it. 

PERRY  continued  as  the  general  manager  of  the  paper  till  his  dea_th  on  6th 
Dec.,  1821 ;  but  before  this  he  had  left  much  of  the  editing  to  others,  his  first  as- 
sistant after  GRAY'S  death  being  ROBERT  SPANKIE.  ultimately  attorney-general 
of  Bengal.  The  next  was  JOHN  BLACK,  who  had  joined  him  in  1810 ;  and  upon 
him,  when  PERRY  died,  the  entire  management  devolved. 

After  PERRY'S  death  the  paper  was  purchiised  for  £42,000,  by  WILLIAM 
CLEMENT,  by  whom  it  was  held  till  1834,  when  it  was  sold  to  SIR  JOHN  EAST- 
HOPE  for  £16,500. 

In  1843,  JOHN  BLACK  was  dismissed  to  make  way  for  ANDREW  DOYLE,  who 
had  been  Foreign  Editor,  and  had  married  Sir  John's  daughter.  Black  died  in 
1855. 

On  26th  July,  1847,  SIR  JOHX  EASTHOPE,  who  had  been  carrying  on  the  paper 
.at  a  loss  for  some  time,  sold  it  to  the  Duke  of  Newcastle,  W.  E.  Gladstone, 
Sidney  Herbert,  and  other  influential  Peelites.  Its  new  Editor  was  JOHN 
DOUGLAS  COOK,  who  had  for  some  time  been  one  of  the  reporters  of  The  Ti:»es, 
and  who  gathered  round  him  a  brilliant  staff  of  contributors,  including  Geor.e 
Sydney  Smythe,  afterwards  Lord  Strangford,  Gilbert  Venables,  Abraham  Hay- 
ward,  William  Veruon  Harcourt,  and  'lhackeray.  Its  business  manager  was 
WILLIAM  DELAXE,  the  father  of  the  clever  young  editor  of  The  Times,  JOHN 
THADDEUS  DELAXE. 

The  Chronicle  lingered  on  as  a  would-be  Peelite  organ  till  the  autumn  of  1854, 
when  by  a  curious  arrangement,  the  paper,  with  all  its  plant,  was  sold  to  Serjeant 
•GLOVER,  for  £7500,  on  the  understanding  that,  if  he  continued  to  support  in  it 
the  Peelite  policy,  he  should  have  the  money  back  with  interest,  being  paid 
£3000  a  year  for  three  years.  That  contract  soon  fell  through,  as  GLOVER 
preferred  to  draw  a  subsidy  from  Louis  NAPOLEON,  and  to  make  other  experi- 
ments. At  the  close  of  1854,  the  circulation  of  The  Morning  Chronicle  averaged 
only  about  2500,  while  that  of  The  Morning  Post  was  about  3000,  that  of  The 
Morning  Herald  about  3500,  that  of  The  Daily  Netcs  about  5300,  that  of  The 
Morning  Advertiser  about  (ifiOO,  and  that  of  The  Tinv>*  about  55,000. 

The  last  number  of  The  Morniiig  Chronicle  appeared  March  19,  1862,  when 
what  at  one  time  had  been  the  most  influential  journal  in  the  country  altogether 
ceased  to  exist 

Of  this  paper  SHERIDAN  speaks  in  The  Critic,  and  to  it  BYRON  addressed  a 
Familiar  Epistle.  For  its  columns  W.  HA2LITT  wrote  some  of  the  finest  criti- 
cisms in  our  own  or  any  other  language.  Some  of  the  early  Sketches  by  Bt.f 
appeared  in  it,  but  they  were  really  commenced  in  the  old  Monthly  Manazine. 
DICKEXS'S  father  was  one  of  the  staff.  HA/LITT  also  contributed  to  it  Parlia- 
mentary Reports,  as  at  a  later  period  did  C.  DICKENS. 

Among  other  distinguished  writers  in  The  Morning  Chronicle  were  Lord 
Brougham,  the  Duke  of  Sussex,  David  Ricardo,  Cyrus  Redding,  Albany  Fon- 
blanque,  James  and  John  Stuart  Mill,  John  I'ayne  Collier,  Eyre  Evans  Crowe, 
Charles  Buller,  Lord  Holland,  Joseph  Parkes,  Michael  Joseph  Quin,  George 
Hogarth,  James  Fraser,  W.  Hazlitt,  secundus,  Lord  Melbourne,  W.  Johnson 
Fox,  Henry  Mayhew,  Lord  Palmerston,  A.  B.  Reach,  Alex,  and  Charles  Mackay, 
Tom  Taylor. 

THE  MORNING   POST. 

THE  MORNING  POST,  the  next  tlnily  paper  in  order  of  date  to  The  Chronicle, 
first  appeared  in  1772,  and  was  probably  projected  by  JOHN  BELL.  Three  yean* 


304  POETBY   OF 

subsequently  the  REV.  HENRY  BATE  (who  took  in  1784  the  name  of  Dudley,  and 
was  created  a  baronet  in  1815)  joined  it,  and  was  connected  with  it  till  the  end 
of  1780,  when  he  quarrelled  with  his  colleagues,  and  set  up  The  Morning  Herald, 
the  first  number  of  which  appeared  on  Nov.  1  in  the  same  year.  In  June,  1781, 
he  was  sentenced  to  a  year's  imprisonment  for  an  atrocious  libel  on  the  Duke  of 
Richmond.  He  was  (says  Horace  Walpole,  in  his  Journal  of  the  Reign  of  George 
III.),  the  worst  of  all  the  scandalous  libellers  that  had  appeared,  both  on  private 
persons  as  well  as  public.  His  life  was  dissolute,  and  he  had  fought  more  than 
one  duel.  Yet  Lord  Sandwich  had  procured  for  him  a  good  Crown  living,  and 
he  was  believed  to  be  pensioned  by  the  Court.  He  died  in  1824. 

After  BATE,  as  editor,  came  the  REV.  W.  JACKMAN  (or  JACKSON) — an  equally 
discreditable  clergyman,— and  he  was  succeeded  by  JOHN  TAYLOR  (author  of 
Monsieur  Tonson),  for  whom  PETER  PINDAR  (Du.  JOHN  WOLCOT)  wrote  whim- 
sical verses. 

In  1792,  MR.  TATTERSALL  was  the  responsible  proprietor,  who,  knowing  more 
about  horses  and  sport  than  about  the  elegancies  of  literature,  DR.  WOLCOT 
continued  to  be  the  chief  writer  ;  and  who,  besides  his  clever  verses,  gave  much 
information  upon  affairs  of  the  prize-ring  and  kindred  amusements.  In  1795, 
TATTERSALL  sold  the  entire  copyright,  with  house  and  printing  materials,  for 
£600.  The  circulation  then  was  only  350  daily. 

The  purchaser  was  MR.  DANIEL  STUART  ;  and  MR.  CHRISTIE,  the  auctioneer, 
•was  also  a  proprietor.  Previous  to  this  time,  ROBERT  BURNS  was  applied  to,  to 
supply  poetry,  but  none  was  ever  sent.  DANIEL  STUART  was  not  twenty-nine 
when  he  bought  The  Morning  Post ;  and  JAMES  (afterwards  SIR  JAS.)  MACKIN- 
TOSH, who  was  his  brother-in-law,  and  was  a  regular  contributor,  was  his  senior 
only  by  a  year. 

After  1790,  the  same  ANDREW  MACDONALD,  who  had  been  editor  of  The  Star, 
furnished  poems,  as  did  WORDSWORTH,  SOUTHEY,  C.  LLOYD,  and  other  verse 
writers.  At  the  commencement  of  1798,  S.  T.  COLERIDGE— then  only  twenty- 
five—was  engaged  to  contribute  poetry.  The  Odes,  Fire,  Famine,  and  Slaughter; 
France  ;  Dejection  ;  and  that  on  The  Depo.rting  Year ;  with  twenty  or  thirty  other 
pieces,  since  included  in  his  Poetical  Works,  among  which  was  Love — one  of  the 
most  popular  poems  of  this  age — were  first  published  in  The  Morning  Post.  To 
these  must  be  added  the  first  draught  of  The  Devil's  Thoughts,  a  piece  afterwards 
much  altered.  About  1800,  the  paper  was  supplied  with  some  excellent  pieces, 
in  prose,  including  Fashionable  Intelligence,  short  pungent  articles,  and  jokes, 
by  CHARLES  LAMB. 

In  1798  its  sale  was  over  2000 ;  and  so  well  had  DA_NIEL  STUART  managed  his 

Eroperty— being  exceedingly  well  served  by  his  principal  assistant,  GEORGE. 
ANE— that  when  he  left  The  Morning  Post  for  The  Courier,  in  1803,  the  circula- 
tion amounted  to  4,500.  It,  therefore,  stood  higher  in  point  of  sale  than  any 
other  morning  paper,  the  order  in  respect  of  numbers  from  high  to  low  being 
this :  Morning  Post,  Morning  Herald,  Morning  Advertiser,  Times.  The  amount 
received  for  it  was  about  £25,000.  According  to  JOHN  TAYLOR,  editor  of  The 
Sun,  in  his  Records  of  my  Life,  The  Morning  Post  was  afterwards  purchased  by 
Government  to  silence  attacks  on  the  PRINCE  REGENT. 

Much  of  the  success  of  The  Morning  Post  was  undoubtedly  owing  to  the 
writings  of  COLERIDGE.  He  afterwards  declared  that  he  had  wasted  the  prime 
and  manhood  of  his  intellect  in  writing  for  The  Morning  Post  and  Courier. 
Among  his  contributions  to  the  former  (March  19,  1800)  was  his  famous 
character  of  WILLIAM  PITT.  The  last  time  he  wrote  in  it  was  in  August,  1802. 
A  very  competent  judge,  THOMAS  DE  QUINCEY,  thus  alludes  to  COLERIDGE'* 
political  writings  :— "  Worlds  of  fine  thinking,"  he  says  of  the  daily  press,  "  lie- 
buried  in  that  vast  abyss,  never  to  be  disentombed,  or  restored  to  human 
admiration.  Like  the  sea,  it  has  swallowed  treasures  without  end,  that  no- 
diving-bell  will  bring  up  again.  But  nowhere  throughout  its  shoreless  maga- 
zines of  wealth  does  there  lie  such  a  bed  of  pearls,  confounded  with  the  rubbish 
and  'puryamenta'  of  ages,  as  in  the  political  papers  of  COLERIDGE.  No  more; 
appreciabte  monument  could  be  raised  to  the  memory  of  COLERIDGE,  than  a 
re-publication  of  his  Essays  in  The  Morning  Post,  but  still  more  of  those  after- 
wards published  in  The  Courier."  These  have  since  been  reprinted  under  the- 
title  of  Essays  on  his  own  Times. 


APPENDIX. 


THE  ANARCHISTS.— An  Ode. 
[A  Parody  on  Collins's  Ode  to  the  Passions.] 

— Numero  plures,  virtute  et  honore  minores, 
Indocti  stolidique  et  depugnare  parati. — Hot: 

When  Anarchy,  sworn  foe  to  Kings, 
O'er  Gallia  wav'd  her  crimson  wings, 
Ere  yet  she  spoil'd  with  iron  hand 
Fair  Europe's  desolated  land  ; 
Her  offspring  here,  a  spurious  brood, 
In  faction  nurs'd,  inur'd  to  blood, 
Elate  with  Hope,  perplex'd  with  Fear, 
Would  often  raise  the  listening  ear  ; 
And  all  their  mother's  wonders  tell, 
And  throng  around  her  secret  cell, 
Ranting,  bribing,  whispering,  trembling, 
Urging,  boasting,  and  dissembling. 
By  turns  they  felt  the  Gallic  mind 
Enlarg'd,  unprejudic'd,  refln'd  ; 
Till  once,  by  all  the  goddess  flr'd, 
Beyond  Discretion  rapt,  inspir'd  ; 
Seditious,  false,  and  prone  to  ill, 
They  eager  snatch'd  the  grey-goose  quill. 
And  as  they  oft  had  heard  apart 
The  wonders  of  Sedition's  art, 
Each,  for  Madness  rul'd  the  hour, 
Would  prove  his  own  subversive  power. 

First  PAINE  his  Rights  of  Man  display'd, 

But  could  no  more— for  falsely  cross'd 
Ev'n  by  the  friends  himself  had  made, 

Enraged  he  fled  to  Gallia's  coast. 
Next  PRIESTLEY  tried,  to  whom  'twas  given 

Mankind's  free-agency  to  tell ; 
Ordain'd  to  point  the  road  to  heaven, 

In  pure  free  will  he  points— to  hell ! 
With  meagre  visage  THELWALL  came, 

In  lectures  told  his  sufferings  sore ; 
Till  purple  tyrants  blush'd  with  shame 

Ana  crowds  the  suffering  saint  adore. 
But  tlinti,  O  GODWIN  !  meek  and  mild ; 
Speak  thy  metaphysic  page : 
Now  it  cheer'd  a  laggard  age, 

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306  POETRY   OF 

And  bade  new  scenes  of  joy  at  distance  hail ; 

When  tyrant  Kings  shall  be  no  more, 
When  human  wants  and  wars  shall  fail, 

And  sleep  and  death  shall  quit  the  hallow'd  shore. 
Twas  thus  he  strove  to  sap  the  throne, 
With  borrow'd  arts  and  weapons  not  his  own, 
While  Gallia  clapp'd  her  hands,  and  hail'd  her  favourite  child. 

And  longer  had  he  sung— but,  strange  to  say, 

WAKEFIELD,  the  dragon-fly,  rush'd  on  ; 
Eager  he  sought  the  bold  rebellious  fray, 
And  burst  with  a_nger  and  disdain 
The  web  of  sophistry  in  twain 
Which  GODWIN,  patient  sage !  had  spread 
To  catch  the  fluttering  insects  of  the  land. 
Treason  upreared  ner  arm  to  strike, 
Rebellion  grasped  the  murd'rous  pike, 
And  though,  sometimes,  each  maddening  pause  between, 
Soft  Discretion,  joined  with  Fear, 
Whisper'd  her  councils  in  his  ear, 
Still  Anarchy  upheld  the  busy  scene, 
And  raised  her  shield  of  brass  to  guard  her  vot'ry's  head. 

Next  HOLCROFT  vowed  in  doleful  tone 

No  more  to  fire  a  thankless  age, 
Oblivion  marked  his  labours  for  her  own, 

Neglected  from  the  press  and  damn'd  upon  the  stage. 
See  !  faithful  to  their  mighty  dam, 
COLERIDGE,  SOUTHEY,  LLOYD,  and  LAMB, 
In  splay-foot  madrigals  of  love, 
Soft  moaning  like  the  widowed  dove, 
Pour  side  by  side  their  sympathetic  notes. 
Of  equal  rights  and  civic  feasts 
And  tyrant  Kings  and  knavish  Priests 
Swift  through  the  land  the  tuneful  mischief  floats. 
And  now  to  softer  strains  they  struck  the  lyre, 
They  sung  the  beetle,  or  the  mole, 
The  dying  kid,  or  ass's  foal, 
By  cruel  man  permitted  to  expire. 
But  O,  how  altered  was  the  sprightlier  hour  ! 
When  Fox,  the  Parthian  hero,  rose  to  view  ; 

He  o'er  the  rest  high-towering  like  a  steeple 
Leagued  with  a  "Corresponding"  crew, 
Pledged  in  large  floods  of  wine  "their  Majesties — the  People ". 

The  royal  tribe  accept  the  proffered  power. 

Kings  from  the  forge,  dictators  from  the  plough, 
Peeping  from  forth  their  allies  low, 

Before  the  fallen  arch-seceder  bow  ; 
LEPAUX  bade  Gallia  hail  his  name, 
But  old  St.  Stephen  bowed  his  head  for  shame. 

See  NORFOLK  last,  with  BEDFORD  roll, 

He  of  Bacchus'  favours  proud, 
The  sovereign  mob  most  eloquent  addressed  ; 
But  soon  he  spied  the  mirth-inspiring  bowl, 
Whose  ruby  treasures  charmed  his  soul  the  best ; 
They  would  have  thought  who  heard  him  speak, 

'Twas  Falstaff,  with  his  minions  at  his  back, 
High  primed  with  valour,  turbulence,  and  sack, 
Aping  the  monarch  to  a  wondr'ing  crowd. 


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While  BEDFORD  proud  his  lesson  to  rehearse. 

With  studious  labours  urged  the  bold  reply  : 
Shouts  of  applause  ran  rattling  through  the  sky : 
And  he,  the  nero  of  the  day, 
Right  glad  their  servile  suffrage  to  repay, 

Shook  golden  bounty  from  his  swelling  purse. 

O,  England !  heav'n-defended  land  ! 
With  power  to  "  threaten  and  command," 
Say,  is  thy  former  spirit  broke, 
To  crouch  beneath  a  foreign  yoke, 
And  listen  to  the  idiot  strains 
Of  slaves  thy  better  sense  disdains, 
As  erst,  in  many  an  ardent  hour, 
You  awed  an  adverse  haughty  power. 
Thy  lofty  mind,  to  Freedom  true, 
May  well  retain  what  then  it  knew. 
Where  is  thy  former  patriot  soul, 
Above  deceit,  above  controul  ? 
Arise  !  as  in  that  happier  time 
United,  fearless,  bold,  sublime. 
"Us  said,  and  I  believe  the  tale, 
Thy  efforts  then  could  more  avail, 
Could  more  true  happiness  dispense, 
With  Order,  Morals,  Virtue,  Sense, 
Than  all  that  flres  with  party  rage 
This  boastful  philosophic  age. 
Arise  !  with  manly  zeal  advance, 
To  curb  the  lawless  power  of  France ; 
O,  bid  her  mad  endeavours  cease, 
And  give  the  willing  nations  PEACE ! 

— Fabricitu. 


THE     PASSIONS. 

An  Ode  far  Music. 
WILLIAM  COLLINS. 

When  Music,  heavenly  rnaid,  was  young, 
While  yet  in  early  Greece  she  sung, 
The  Passions  oft,  to  hear  her  shell, 
Throng'd  around  her  magic  cell, 
Exulting,  trembling,  raging,  fainting, 
Possess'd  beyond  the  Muse's  painting  ; 
By  turns  they  felt  the  glowing  mind, 
Disturb'd,  delighted,  rais'd,  refln'd, 
Till  once,  'tis  said,  when  all  were  tir'd, 
Fill'd  with  fury,  rapt,  inspir'd, 
From  the  supporting  myrtles  round 
They  snatch'd  her  instruments  of  sound, 
And,  as  they  oft  had  heard  apart 
Sweet  lessons  of  her  forceful  art, 
Each,  for  Madness  ruled  the  hour, 
Would  prove  his  own  expressive  power. 

First  Fear,  his  hand,  its  skill  to  try, 

Amid  the  chords  bewikler'd  laid, 
And  back  recoil'd,  he  knew  not  why, 

Even  at  the  sound  himself  had  made. 

Next  Anger  rush'd  his  eyes  on  fire, 
In  lightnings  own'd  his  secret  stings, 

In  one  rude  clash  he  struck  the  lyre, 
And  swept  with  hurried  hand  the  strings. 

With  woful  measures  wan  Despair 
Low  sullen  sounds  his  grief  beguil'd, 

A  sullen,  strange,  and  mingled  air, 
'Twos  sad  by  fits,  by  starts  'twas  wild. 

But  thou,  O  HOPE  !  with  eyes  so  fair, 

What  was  thy  delighted  measure  ? 

Still  it  whisper1  d  promis'd  pleasure, 
And  bade  the  lovely  scenes  at  distance  hail ! 

Still  would  her  touch  the  strain  prolong, 
And  from  the  rocks,  the  woods,  the  vale, 
She  call'd  on  ECHO  still  through  all  the  song ; 

And  where  her  sweetest  theme  she  chose, 

A  soft  responsive  voice  was  heard  at  every  close, 
And  Hope  enchanted  smil'd,  and  wav'd  her  golden  hair. 


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And  longer  had  she  sung, — but,  with  a  frown, 

REVENGE  impatient  rose, 

He  threw  his  blood-stained  sword  in  thunder  down, 
And,  with  a  withering  look, 
The  war-denouncing  trumpet  took, 
And  blew  a  blast  so  loud  and  dread, 
Were  ne'er  prophetic  sounds  so  full  of  woe. 
And  ever  and  anon  he  beat 
The  doubling  drum  with  furious  heat ; 
And  though  sometimes,  each  dreary  pause  between, 
Dejected  PITY  at  his  side 
Her  soul-subduing  voice  applied  ; 
Yet  still  he  kept  his  wild  unalter'd  mien, 
While  each  strain 'd  ball  of  sight  seem'd  bursting  from  his  head, 

Thy  numbers,  JEALOUSY,  to  nought  were  fix'd, 

Sad  proof  of  thy  distressful  state  ! 
Of  differing  themes  the  veering  song  was  mix'd, 
And  now  it  courted  LOVE,  now  raving  call'd  on  HATE. 
With  eyes  upraised,  as  one  inspir'd, 
Pale  MELANCHOLY  sat  retir'd, 
And  from  her  wild  sequester'd  seat, 
In  notes  by  distance  made  more  sweet, 
Pour"d  through  the  mellow  horn  her  pensive  soul : 
And  dashing  soft  from  rocks  around, 
Bubbling  runnels  join'd  the  sound  ; 
Through  glades  and  glooms  the  mingled  measure  stole, 
Or  o'er  some  haunted  streams  with  fond  delay, 
Round  a  holy  calm  diffusing, 
Love  of  peace  and  lonely  musing, 
In  hollow  murmurs  died  away. 


But  oh  !  how  alter'd  was  its  sprightlier  tone  ! 
When  CHEERFULNESS,  a  nymph  of  healthiest  hue, 

Her  bow  across  her  shoulders  flung, 
Her  buskins  gemm'd  with  morning  dew, 
Blew  an  inspiring  air  that  dale  and  thicket  rung, 

The  hunter's  call  to  Faun  and  Dryad  known ; 
The  oak-crown'd  Sisters,  and  their  chaste-eyed  Queen, 
Satyrs  and  Sylvan  boys  were  seen, 
Peeping  from  forth  their  alleys  green ; 
Brown  EXEKCISE  rejoic'd  to  hear, 
And  SPORT  leapt  up,  and  seized  his  beechen  spear. 


Last  came  JOY'S  ecstatic  trial ; 

He  with  viny  crown  advancing, 
First  to  the  lively  pipe  his  hand  address'd  ; 
But  soon  he  saw  the  brisk  awakening  viol, 
Whose  sweet  entrancing  voice  he  lov'd  the  best 
They  would  have  thought  who  heard  the  strain, 
They  saw  in  Tempe's  vale  her  native  maids, 
Amidst  the  festal  sounding  shades, 
To  some  unwearied  minstrel  dancing : 
While,  as  his  flying  fingers  kiss'd  the  strings, 
LOVE  framed  with  MIRTH  a  gay  fantastic  round, 
Loose  were  her  tresses  seen,  lier  zone  unbound: 
And  he,  amidst  his  frolic  play. 
As  if  he  would  the  charming  air  repay, 
Shook  thousand  odours  from  his  dewy  wings. 


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POETRY   OF   THE   ANTI-JACOBIN. 


O  Music !  sphere-descended  maid, 
Friend  of  PLEASURE,  WISDOM'S  aid, 
Why,  goddess,  why  to  us  denied, 
Lay_'st  thou  thy  ancient  lyre  aside  ? 
As  in  that  lov'd  Athenian  bower, 
You  learn'd  an  all-commanding  power, 
Thy  mimic  soul,  O  nymph  endear'd, 
Can  well  recall  what  then  it  heard. 
Where  is  thy  native  simple  heart, 
Devote  to  virtue,  fancy,  art? 
Arise,  as  in  that  elder  time, 
Warm,  energetic,  chaste,  sublime  ! 
Thy  wonders,  in  that  god-like  age, 
Fill  thy  recording  Sister's  page. 
'Tis  said,  and  I  believe  the  tale, 
Thy  humblest  reed  could  more  prevail, 
Had  more  of  strength,  diviner  rage, 
Than  all  which  charms  this  laggard  age, 
E'en  all  at  once  together  found 
Cecilia's  mingled  world  of  sound. 
O  bid  our  vain  endeavours  cease, 
Revive  the  just  designs  of  Greece  ; 
Return  in  all  thy  simple  state  ! 
Confirm  the  tales  her  sons  relate. 


THE  ANTI-JACOBIN  REVIEW  AND  MAGAZINE 

FOR  JULY,  1798. 
M.Vd.VA  EST  VERITAS  ET  PR^VALEBIT, 

Art.  1.     The  Republican  Judge,  or  the  American  Liberty  of  the  Press,  at  exhibited, 
explained,  and  exposed,  in  the  base  and  partial  Prosecution  of  William  Cobbett, 
for  a  pretended  Libel  against  the  King  of  Spain  and  hit  Smbastador,  before  the 
Supreme  Court  of  Pennsylvania.     With  an  Address  to  the  People  of  England. 
By  Peter  Porcupine.    8vo.,  pp.  96.    Price  2s.     Wright,  London. 

T'he  past  writings  of  Mr.  William  Cobbett,  who  has  assumed  the  appellation 
of  Peter  Porcupine,  are  too  well  known  in  England  to  require  any 
explanation  from  us,  either  of  their  tendency,  or  of  the  author's  principles. 
Were  any  doubt  entertained  on  the  subject,  nothing  more  would  be  requisite  to 
dispel  it  than  a  mere  reference  to  the  comments  of  all  the  Jacobin  Reviewers, 
who  have,  without  exception,  in  defiance  alike  of  decency  and  of  truth,  lavished 
on  them  the  most  indiscriminate  censure  and  the  most  scurrilous  abuse. 
Strange  as  it  may  appear,  it  is  indisputably  true  that  the  individual  exertions 
of  Mr.  Co_bbett  nave  more  essentially  contributed  to  give  a  proper  tone  to  the 
public  spirit  in  America  than  all  the  efforts  of  the  well-disposed  part  of  the 
native  Americans :  for  a  considerable  length  of  time  he  combated  alone  a  host 
of  foes,  "himself  a  host";  stemmed  the  impetuous  tide  of  democracy;  and 
checked  the  irruptions  of  French  anarchy  and  atheism,  which  threatened  to 
overwhelm  the  American  States,  and,  with  the  ruins  of  their  confliction,  to 
crush  everything  for  which  the  Americans,  at  the  period  of  their  revolution, 
professed  to  tight,  and  which  they  have  ever  since  professed  to  cherish.  The 
adoption  of  such  a  line  of  conduct  was  alone  sufficient  to  draw  down  upon  our 
author  the  vengeance  of  all  whose  treasonable  designs  his  manly  efforts  were 
intended  to  defeat.  Accordingly,  nothing  was  spared  by  the  infuriated  advo- 
cates of  anarchy  to  injure  him  in  the  public  mind,  and,  by  blasting  his  reputa- 
tion, to  deprive  him  of  that  credit  which  was  indispensably  necessary  to  secure 
the  success  of  his  works.  No  imputation  however  base,  no  lie  however 
atrocious,  none  of  those  black  and  diabolical  arts,  in  short,  which,  issuing  from 
the  bubbling  cauldron  of  democracy,  were  so  skilfully  employed  to  blacken  the 
first  and  fairest  character  in  France,  as  a  necessary  prelude  to  the  establish- 
ment of  the  virtuous  republic  of  the  Great  Nation,  were  neglected  in  the 
glorious  attempt  to  achieve  the  ruin  of  this  worthy  individual.  When  these 
were  found  to  fail  of  producing  the  desired  effect,  recourse  was  had  to  personal 
threats — the  coward's  weapon— with  the  hope  of  inducing  him,  by  the  means  of 
intimidation,  to  quit  a  country  in  which  his  enemies  endeavoured  to  convince 
him  that  his  life  was  daily  exposed  to  most  imminent  danger.  But  neither 
the  dread  of  calumny,  nor  the  fear  of  assassination,  could  lead  the  object  of 
their  persecution  to  forego  his  laudable  design.  He  manfully  persevered,  and 
has  at  length,  though  not  without  infinite  difficulty,  succeeded  in  opening  the 
eyes  of  the  Americans  to  their  own  interest,  and  in  the  infamous  machinations 
of  France,  and  of  American  traitors  in  the  pay  of  France — for  England  is  not  the 
ONLY  country  in  which  foreign  gold  is  employed  as  a  stimulus  to  domestic 
treason.*  In  the  course  of  his  exertions  to  produce  this  desirable  end,  honest 

*  "  It  is  notorious  that  the  French  Directory  have  newtpapert  in  their  pay,  not 
only  in  America,  but  in  every  country  in  Europe.    That  there  should  exist  such 


312  POETRY   OP 

Peter  had  occasion  to  comment  on  the  pusillanimous  conduct  of  the  Spanish 
monarch,  in  bending  the  knee  to,  and  forming  an  alliance  with,  the  base 
plunderers  and  assassins  of  his  family,  and  on  the  insidious  and  criminal  efforts 
of  the  Spanish  ambassador  to  strengthen  the  hands  of  the  French  faction  in 
America.  These  comments,  it  seems,  excited  the  indignation  of  Don  Carlos 
Martinez  de  Trojo,  who  determined  to  bring  the  author  to  condign  punishment ; 
and  it  was  the  very  unwarrantable  conduct  which  the  latter  experienced  on  the 
occasion  that  gave  rise  to  the  publication  before  us. 

PETER  begins  his  tract  by  stating  the  dangers  to  which  he  knew  himself 
exp_osed,  on  account  of  his  political  principles,  when  he  established  his 
residence  in  the  state  of  Pennsylvania,  "  where  the  government,  generally 
speaking,  was  in  the  hands  of  those  who  had  (and  sometimes  with  great 
indecency)  manifested  an  uniform  partiality  for  the  sans-culotte  French,  and  as 
uniform  an  opposition  to  the  ministers  and  measures  of  the  f  ed_eral  government ". 
That  men  should  ever  be  placed  in  situations  of  trust  and  importance,  whose 
principles  are  avowedly  adverse  to  the  constitution  whence  they  derive  their 
subsistence,  and  which  it  is  their  bounden  duty  to  protect,  is  a  circumstance 
that  would  excite  universal  astonishment  if  it  did  not,  unhappily,  so  often 
occur.  Still  the  frequency  of  its  occurrence  does  not  alter  its  nature,  nor 
should  it  be  allowed  to  diminish  that  ample  portion  of  censure  which  must  ever 
attach  to  the  authors  of  such  appointments.  It  is  such  conduct  as  this  that 
justifies  one  of  the  wisest  observations  that  ever  fell  from  the  pen  of  Voltaire — 
"A  GOVERNMENT  CAN  ONLY  PERISH  BY  SUICIDE" — an  observation  confirmed 
by  the  fate  of  every  country  that  has  been  recently  reduced  beneath  the  iron 
yoke  of  republican  France. 

Aware  of  his  danger,  our  author  thought  the  best  means  of  averting  it  was, 
by  seeking  for  some  standard,  as  a  safe  rule  for  his  conduct  in  respect  to  the 
liberty  of  this  press.  "The  English  press  was  said  to  be  enslaved ;  but,  when  I 
came  to  consult  the  practice  of  this  enslaved  press,  I  found  it  still  to  be  far  too 
free  for  me  to  attempt  to  follow  its  example.  Finally,  it  appeared  to  me  to  be 
the  safest  way,  to  form  to  myself  some  rule  founded  on  the  liberty  exercised  by 
the  American  press.  I  concluded  that  I  might  without  danger  go  as  great 
lengths  in  attacking  the  enemies  of  the  country  as  others  went  in  attacking  its 
friends  :  that  as  much  zeal  might  be  shown  in  defending  the  general  government 
and  administration  as  in  accusing  and  traducing  them :  and  that  as  great 
warmth  would  be  admissible  in  the  cause  of  virtue,  order,  and  religion,  as  had 
been  tolerated  in  the  wicked  cause  of  villainy,  insurrection,  and  blasphemy" 
(p.  21).  Alas!  Peter,  at  this  time,  knew  but  little  of  the  "spirit  and  temper," 
as  MR.  BARRISTER  ERSKINE  would  express  it,  of  democracy  and  Jacobinism. 
He  knew  not  that  the  men  who  profess  those  principles  are  for  the  most  part 
vindictive,  malignant,  oppressive,  and  intolerant ;  and  that  under  the  mask  of 
liberty  they  exercise  the  most  insupportable  tyranny  over  their  families  and 
dependents,  and  that  in  their  general  conduct  to  their  inferiors— unless  when 
impelled  by  interest  or  urged  by  ambition,  they  irritate  their  passions  with 
toasts  and  flattery,  from  a  tavern-chair,  or  influence  their  minds  by  seditious 
discourses  and  treasonable  insinuations,  from  a  tribune  or  a  scaffold— they  are 
supercilious,  arrogant,  insolent,  and  overbearing.  He  knew  not,  it  would  seem, 
that  those  whose  whole  duty  is  to  defend  the  laws  often  sleep  on  their  posts,  while 
their  enemies  are  ever  vigilant,  active,  and  alert ;  that  when  the  former  are 
attacked,  a  tardiness  of  zeal,  amounting  nearly  to  torpor,  secures,  with  few 
exceptions,  impunity  to  the  assailant ;  whereas  any  exposure  of  the  latter  draws 
forth  a  malignity  of  revenge  which  is  the  certain  fore-runner  of  persecution. 

MERCENARY  TRAITORS  AS  TO  RECEIVE  THE  PAY  OF  REGICIDES  AND  ASSASSINS 

is  still  less  astonishing  than  that  there  should  be  found  men  in  the  different 
countries,  and  men  of  rank,  too,  so  base,  so  degenerate,  and  so  foolish,  as  to  give 
encouragenent  to  their  treasonable  productions  "  (p.  57).  The  author  speaks 
truth ;  there  is  at  least  one  newspaper  of  this  description  in  London,  which  is 
encouraged— to  their  shame  be  it  spoken  ! — by  men  of  rank,  and  by  members  of 
the  Legislature — Representans  du  Peuple  Souverain.' — who  even  degrade  them- 
selves so  far  as  to  associate  with  the  profligate  miscreants  who  compose  its 
inflammatory  pages. — REVIEWER. 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  313 

Indeed,  the  inveteracy  of  the  discontented,  of  that  class  which  includes  all 
those  who  aspire  to  the  possession  of  place  and  power,  and  are  little  scrupulous 
about  the  means  of  attaining  them  ;  and  all  the  determined  revolutionists  or 
subverters  of  established  institutions,  may  be  traced  to  a  natural  source.  Un- 
able to  support  by  reason  a  cause  which  reason  disavows,  unable  to  strengthen 
by  arguments  positions  which  set  all  argument  at  defiance,  it  becomes  their 
business  to  inflame  by  passion  and  to  dazzle  with  sophistry.  Hence  arises  an 
extreme  facility  of  exposing^  their  weakness  and  detecting  their  infamy,  and 
not  having  the  means  of  resisting  such  exposure,  being  wholly  destitute  of  the 
sentiments  which  are  necessary  for  a  successful  reply,  they  are  reduced  to  the 
degrading  alternative  of  abandoning  the  field  to  a  triumphant  adversary,  or  of 
seeking,  by  the  adoption  of  violent  measures,  to  punish  the  opponent  whom  they 
did  not  dare  to  encounter.  This  it  is  that  renders  revenge  an  active  principle  in 
their  minds. 

The  first  step  taken  by  the  Spanish  ambassador  was  an  application  to  the 
federal  government  to  prosecute  our  author  "  for  certain  matters  published  in 
his  Gazette  against  himself  and  that  poor,  unfortunate,  and  humbled  mortal, 
Charles  IV.,  King  of  Spain".  The  government  consented,  and  Peter  was 
accordingly  bound  over  to  appear  in  the  federal  district  court  before  Judge 
Peters.  Don  Carlos,  however,  soon  found  that  his  prosecution  would  be  more 
likely  to  succeed,  if  brought  in  a  district  where  the  defendant  had  more 
personal  enemies,  and  where  the  people  were  more  generally  disposed  to  the 
adoption  of  revolutionary  principles.  A  memorial  was,  accordingly,  "  delivered 
in  to  the  federal  government,  requesting  that  the  trial  might  come  on  before  the 
Supreme  Court  of  Pennsylvania,  of  which  Court  McKean  it  Chief  Juttice".  Of 
this  republican  Judge  our  author  gives  such  an  account  as  must  convey  to 
English  minds  a  strange  idea  of  the  administration  of  njiublican  Justice.  It  is 
to  be  found  in  P.  22— When  Britons  contempjate  the  character  here  delineated, 
and  contrast  it  with  the  characters  of  their  own  Judges  to  which  even  the 
licentious  tongue  of  faction  has  not  dared  to  impute  the  smallest  stain,  their 
bosoms  must  glow  with  satisfaction  of  the  most  exalted  kind ;  they  must  exult 
in  the  superior  excellence  of  that  form  of  government  and  of  those  laws  which 
effectually  secure  them  from  the  evils  of  a  vicious,  corrupt,  or  partial  distribu- 


comes  to  be  served  up  in  Britain,  will  be  a  dish  for  a  king.  The  royalists  will 
lick  their  lips,  and  the  republicans  will  cry,  God  bless  us !  The  emigrations 
for  liberties  sake  will  cease,  and  we  shall  have  nothing  hut  the  pure  unadulterated 
dregs  of  Newgate  and  the  Fleet,  the  candidates  for  Tyburn  and  Botany  Bay — 
Blessed  cargo  i  All  patriots  to  the  backbone :  true  philanthropists  and  universal 
citizens  :  fit  for  any  place  but  England  in  this  world  and  heaven  in  the  next ! " 

But,  notwithstanding  the  Judge's  charge,  the  most  partial  and  scandalous 
charge,  we  conceive,  that  ever  was  delivered  out  of  France,  the  Grand  Jury  re- 
fused to  find  the  bill,  and  the  prosecution  of  course  ceased.  The  Judge,  not 
less  disappointed  than  the  prosecutor,  on  this  occasion,  took  an  early  oppor- 
tunity—to his  infamy  be  it  recorded  !— of  declaring  from  the  Bench  that  the 
Grand  Jury  would  not  dr>  their  duly.  What  would  the  disaffected  in  this  country 
say  were  any  British  Judge  to  use  such  language  ?  The  gross  imputations  cast 
upon  the  character  of  our  author  by  this  impartial  Judge,  have  extorted  from 
Peter  a  tribute  of  justice  to  himself  which  the  occasion  most  amply  justifies. 
As  the  account  here  given  perfectly  accords  with  all  the  information  we  have 
received  from  persons  of  undoubted  veracity  who  know  him  well,  and  as  it 
fully  corroborates  the  opinion  we  ourselves  have  formed  of  him,  from  an  atten- 
tive perusal  of  his  publications,  we  shall  extract  it  for  the  satisfaction  of  our 
readers : — "  It  hardly  ever  becomes  a  man  to  say  much  of  his  private  character 
or  concerns  ;  but  on  this  occasion  I  trust  I  shal'l  be  indulged  for  a  moment.  I 
will  say,  and  I  will  make  that  saying  good,  whosoever  shall  oppose  it,  that  I 
never  attacked  any  one,  whose  private  character  is  not,  in  every  light  in  which 
it  can  possibly  be  viewed  as  far  beneath  mine  as  infamy  is  beneath  honour. 
Nay,  I  defy  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  populous  as  it  is,  and  respectable  as  are 
many  of  its  inhabitants,  to  produce  me  a  single  man  who  is  more  sober,  in- 


314  POETRY   OF 

dustrious,  or  honest;  who  is  a  kinder  husband,  a  tenderer  father,  a  better 
master,  a  fonder  friend,  or  (though  last  not  least)  a  more  zealous  and  faithful 
subject. 

"  Most  certainly  it  is  unseemly  in  any  one  to  say  this  much  of  himself  unless 
compelled  to  it  by  some  public  outrage  on  his  character  ;  but  when  the  accusa- 
tion is  made  notorious  so  ought  the  defence  ;  and  I  do  again  and  again  repeat, 
that  I  fear  not  a  comparison  between  my  character  and  that  of  .any  man  in  this 
city :  no,  not  even  with  that  of  the  very  Judge,  who  held  me  as  the  worst  of 
miscreants^.  His  Honour  is  welcome,  if  he  please,  to  carry  this  comparison  into 
all  the  actions  of  our  lives,  public  and  domestic,  and  to  extend  it  beyond  our- 
selves to  every  branch  of  our  families. 

"  As  to  my  writing,  I  never  did  slander  any  one,  if  the  promulgation  of  useful 
truths  be  not  slander.  Innocence  and  virtue  I  have  often  endeavoured  to  defend, 
but  I  never  defamed  either.  I  have,  indeed,  stripped  the  close-drawn  veil  of 
hypocrisy ;  I  have  ridiculed  the  follies,  and  lashed  the  vices  of  thousands,  and 
have  done  it  sometimes  perhaps  with  a  rude  and  violent  hand.  But  these  are 
not  the  days  for  gentleness  and  mercy.  Such  as  is  the  temper  of  the  foe,  such 
must  be  that  of  his  opponent.  Seeing  myself  published  as  a  rogue,  and  my  wife 
a  whore;  being  persecuted  with  such  infamous,  such  base  and  hellish  calumny 
in  the  philanthropic  city  of  Philadelphia,  merely  for  asserting  the  truth  respecting 
others,  was  not  calculated,  I  assure  you,  to  sweeten  my  temper,  and  turn  my 
ink  into  honey -dew. 

"  My  attachment  to  order  and  good  government,  nothing  but  the  impudence 
of  Jacobinism  can  deny.  The  object  not  only  of  my  own  publications,  but  also 
of  all  those  which  I  have  introduced  or  encouraged,  from  the  first  moment  that 
I  appeared  on  the  public  scene  to  the  present  day,  has  been  to  lend  some  aid  in 
stemming  the  torrent  of  anarchy  and  confusion.  To  undeceive  the  misguided, 
by  tearing  the  mask  from  the  artful  and  ferocious  villains  who  owing  to  the 
infatuation  of  the  poor,  and  the  supineness  of  the  rich,  have  made  such  fearful 
progress  in  the  destruction  of  all  that  is  amiable  and  good  and  sacred  among 
men.  To  the  government  of  this  country  in  particular  it  has  been  my  constant 
study  to  yield  all  the  support  in  my  power.  When  that  government,  or  the 
worthy  men  who  administer  it  have  been  traduced  and  vilified,  I  have  stood 
forward^in  their  defe_nce,  and  that  too,  in  times  when  its  friends  were  some  of 
them  locked  up  in  silence,  and  others  giving  way  to  the  audacious  violence  of 
its  foes.  Not  that  I  am  so  foolishly  vain  as  to  attribute  to  my  illiterate  voter  a. 
thousandth  part  of  the  merit  my  friends  are  inclined  to  allow  it.  As  I  wrote 
the  other  day  to  a  gentleman  who  had  paid  me  some  compliments  on  this  score, 
'  I  should  never  look  on  my  family  with  a  dry  eye  if  I  did  not  hope  to  outlive  my 
works '.  They  are  mere  transitory  beings  to  which  the  revolutionary  storm  has 
given  life,  and  which  with  that  storm  will  expire.  But,  what  I  contend  for  and 
what  nobody  can  deny,  I  have  done  all  that  laid  in  my  power,  all  that  I  was 
able  by  any  means  to  accomplish  in  order  to  counteract  the  nefarious  effects  of 
the  enemies  of  the  American  government  and  nation. 

"  With  respect  to  religion,  altho'  Mr.  M'Kean  was  pleased  to  number  it  among 
the  things  that  were  in  danger  from  the  licentiousness  of  the  press,  and  of 
course  from  poor  me,  I  think  it  would  puzzle  the  devil  himself  to  produce  from 
my  writings,  a  single  passage,  which  could,  by  all  the  powers  of  perversion  be 
twisted  into  an  attack  upon  it.  But  it  would  on  the  contrary  be  extremely  easy 
to  prove,  that  I  have  at  all  times,  when  an  opportunity  offered,  repelled  the 
attacks  of  its  enemies,  the  abominable  battalions  of  Deists  and  Atheists,  with 
all  my  heart,  with  all  my  mind,  with  all  my  soul,  and  with  all  my  strength. 
The  bitterest  drop  in  my  pen  has  ever  been  bestowed  upon  them  ;  because,  of 
all  the  foes  of  the  human  race,  I  look  upon  them,  after  the  devil,  as  being  the 
greatest  and  most  dreadful.  Not  a  sacrilegious  plunderer  from  Henry  VIII.  to 
Condorcet,  and  from  Condorcet  to  the  impious  Sans-culottes  of  France,  has 
escaped  my  censure.  All  those,  who  have  attempted  to  degrade  religion  whether 
by  open  insults  and  cruelties  to  the  clergy,  by  blasphemous  publications  or  by 
the  more  dangerous  poison  of  the  malignant  modern  philosophy,  I  have  ranked 
amongst  the  most  infamous  of  mankind,  and  have  treated  them  accordingly." 

In  the  concluding  part  of  his  tract  the  author  clearly  convicts  the  Judge  of 
the  most  decided  and  most  flagrant  partiality.  He  quotes  a  number  of  infamous 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  315 

libels,  on  religious  and  political  subjects,  which  had  never  roused  the  indigna- 
tion, nor  even  excited  the  censure,  of  those  whose  duty  it  is  to  preserve  the 
public  peace  and  to  enforce  a  due  observance  of  the  laws.  If,  indeed,  we  were 
to  judge,  from  this  specimen,  of  the  mode  of  administring  justice  in  America,  in 
matters  of  libel,  we  should  conclude,  that  every  degree  of  licentiousness  is  allowed 
to  those  who  seek  to  debauch  the  minds  of  the  people,  to  seduce  them  from 
their  allegiance,  and  to  dissolve  every  tie  which  religion  and  morality  have 
formed  for  the  happiness  of  men  in  a  social  state,  while  the  upright  supporters 
of  virtue,  whose  labours  are  directed  to  the  prevention  of  anarchy  and  rebellion, 
by  detecting  the  views  and  exposing  the  machinations  of  their  abettors,  are  the 
sole  objects  not  merely  of  j»-osecution  but  of  persecution. 

The  abuse  bestowed  on  the  mild  and  beneficent  sovereigns  of  these  realms 
by  the  Democratic  factions  in  the  American  Congress,  is  almost  equal  in  severity 
to  the  censures  lavished  by  some  members  of  opposition  during  the  last  parlia- 
ment in  the  British  Senate,  on  the  Kings  of  Prussia  and  Hungary,  before  those 
monarchs  had  become  allies  of  France. 

The  following  extracts  will,  at  once,  afford  a  criterion  of  the  political  prin- 
ciples of  public  men,  in  the  State  of  Pennsylvania,  and  a  curious  specimen  of 
republican  morality. 

"The  Governor  (Mifflin)  attended  at  a  civic  festival,  when  the  following 
toasts  were  drunk,  which  were  published  in  most  of  the  newspapers.* 

" '  Those  illustrious  citizens  sent  to  Botany  Bay.  May  they  be  speedily 
recalled  by  their  country  in  the  day  of  her  regeneration. 

" '  May  the  spirit  of  parliamentary  reform  in  Britain  and  Ireland  burst 
the  bonds  of  corruption,  and  overwhelm  the  foes  of  liberty.' 

" '  The  sans-culottes  of  France.  May  the  robes  of  all  the  Emperors,  Kings, 
Princes,  and  Potentates  [not  excepting  the  King  of  Spain]  now  employed  in 
suppressing  the  flame  of  liberty,  be  cut  up  to  make  breeches.' 

"This  is  pretty  'decent'  in  a  Goi-enwr ;  but  without  stopping  to  remark  on 
the  peculiar  decency  of  his  toasting  a  gang  of  convicts,  let  us  come  to  another 
instance  of  his  conduct,  full  as  '  decent '  as  this. 

"At  the  civic  festival,  held  in  this  city  in  1794,  to  celebrate  the  dethrone- 
ment of  'our  great  and  good  ally,  Louis  XVI.'  there  were  ' assembled,' according 
to  the  'proces  verbal'  which  was  sent  to  the  Paris  convention,  'the  CHIEFS, 
civil  and  military'.  This  proce*  verbal  contains  a  letter  to  the  convention,  in 
which  the  following  honourable  mention  is  made  of  the  governor.  'The 
Governor  of  Pennsylvania,  that  ardent  friend  of  the  French  republic,  was  present, 
and  partook  of  all  our  enthusiasm  and  all  our  sentiments.'  t 

"  I  believe  they  spoke  truth  ;  for  the  cannons  of  the  State  were  fired,  and 
military  companies,  with  drums  beating_  and  colours  flying,  attended  the 
execrable  fete,  one  of  the  ceremonies  of  which  was  burning  the  English  ftay ;  and 
as  to  the  sentiments  contained  in  the  oathi  and  speeches  (for  there  were  both) 
they  abounded  in  insults  towards  almost  all  the  princes  of  the  earth,  but 
particularly  the  King  of  Great  Britain. 

"A  Judge  of  Pennsylvania,  REDMAN,  was,  in  November,  1795,  caught 
thieving  in  the  shop  of  MR.  FOLWELL,  the  dry-goods  merchant  in  Front  Street. 
MR.  FOLWELL  detected  him,  took  the  money  (§300)  from  him,  and  kicked  him 
into  the  street.  His  friends,  among  the  most  intimate  of  whom  was  His 
Excellency  the  Governor,  advised  him  to  retire  ;  and  he  is  still  living  at  his  ease 
about  20  miles  from  the  city.  No  justice  was  ever  done  to  him ;  he  was  never 
censured,  not  even  in  the  newspapers  !  Such  is  the  cowardly,  base,  and  worth- 
less press  of  America.  Such  are  republican  judges,  and  such  is  republican  morality ! 

*  "  See  BACHE  of  11  February,  1795." 

t  The  reader  will  not  be  surprised  to  hear  that  this  is  the  identical  governor 
who  wanted  a  few  thousands  of  dollars  from  the  French  minister,  FAUCIIKT. 
and  who  drew  secretly  15,000  dollars  out  of  the  Bank  of  Pennsylvania ! !  This 
man  brought  a  whole  litter  of  bastards  home  to  his  virtuous  wife.  He  is  _a 
shameless  ulackguard,  a  drunkard,  and  everything  that  can  be  named  that  is 
vile.  Such  is  a  republican  governor;  a  chief  magistrate  of  state,  who  has 
infinitely  greater  powers  over  life  and  property  than  King  George  has  ! !  And 
this  I  have  already  pointed  out  on  sundry  occasions. 


316          POETRY  OF  THE  ANTI-JACOBIN. 

But  this  is  not  the  worst.     I  know  a  Judge  who  committed  murder !  wilful  mur- 
der, and  that,  too,  previous  to  his  appointment  by  this  our  republican  Governor  1 

"  I  only  give  a  sort  of  hint  here.  One  day  or  other  if  it  pleases  God  to  spare 
my  life,  I  will  publish  such  a  collection  of  facts  as  will  shock  the  universe. 

"A  Pennsylvania  Judge's  u-ife  had,  a  little  while  ago,  a  child,  by  a  man  who 
kept  a  livery  stable.  The  lady  says,  the  stableman  is  the  best  of  the  two  and  so 
has  married  him,  though  his  Honour  is  still  living.  I  need  not  name  the  parties, 
for  though  the  cowardly  newspapers  have  never  noticed  the  affair  it  is  notorious 
enough. 

"There  are  more  bastards  born  annually  in  the  single  state  of  Pennsylvania.than 
in  all  the  British  dominions :  and  as  to  cuckoldom,  I  will  only  say  that  every 

Eaper  teems  with  advertisements  of  wives  eloped  from  the  bed  and  board  of  their 
usbands.    I  do  not  hence  insinuate  that  there  are  no  good  people  here.    There 
are  many.    As  many  as  in  most  countries ;  but  then  people  will,  and  do  allow, 
that  the  morals  of  the  country  are  approaching  fast  to  that  state,  which  has 
never  yet  failed  to  prove  the  ruin  of  every  thing  held  in  esteem  amongst  men.,' 

In  proving  the  falsehood  of  the  assertion  so  frequentlyrepeated,  as  well  on  this 
as  on  the  other  side  of  the  Atlantic,  that  "in  America  the  press  is  free  and  truth 
is  not  a  libel,"  our  author  adverts  to  a  letter  of  DR.  PRIESTLEY'S  on  that  sub- 
ject which  he  promises  hereafter  to  expose  more  fully  (a  promise  which  we  trust 
lie  will  not  forget) ;  and  then  introduces  the  following  curious  anecdote,  which 
•we  extract  for  the  benefit  of  the  Doctor's  political  friends  and  admirers  in 
Europe.  ' '  But  since  the  Doctor  wrote  that  letter  it  seems  experience  has  changed 
his  opinion.  He  has  suffered  the  just  punishment  of  his  malignancy  against liis 
country ;  he  has  been  cheated,  neglected ,  and  scorned.  He  is  no w  in  an  obscurity 
hardly  penetrable  ;  he  is  reduced  to  poverty  and  bursting  with  vexation  "  (may 
a  restless  spirit  of  innovation,  springing  from,  and  nourished  by,  a  bigotted 
vanity  and  a  turbulent  pride  ever  experience  a  similar  fate) !  All  this  has  had 
an  effect ;  and  I  will  state  as  a  fact,  which  I  call  upon  him  to  deny  if  he  can, 
that  he  has  lately  declared  "  that  Republican  governments  are  the  most  abitrary  in 
the  world  "  !  This  MACHIAVEL  had  said  before,  and  this  all  unprejudiced  men  of 
reading  and  observation  had  long  since  admitted  ;  but,  we  confess  we  little  ex- 
pected to  hear  DOCTOR  PRIESTLEY  subscribe  to  the  creed  of  the  one,  or  to  the 
acknowledgments  of  the  other.  Adversity,  however,  is  an  able  advocate  in  the 
cause  of  TRUTH. 

The  Address  to  the  People  of  England,  which  is  prefixed  to  the  publication, 
is  short,  but  pointed  and  expressive.  It  breathes  the  true  spirit  of  a  Briton. 
Of  the  literary  merit  of  the  work,  after  the  ample  analysis  which  we  have  given 
of  its  contents,  and  the  extracts  which  we  have  made,  little  remains  to  be  said. 
We  agree  with  the  publisher,  who  in  the  Advertisement  says :  "  The  author 
has  been  more  anxious  to  strengthen  his  arguments  than  to  polish  his  style,  to 
convince  the  judgement  than  to  flatter  the  taste,"  but  those  critics  must  be  more 
"delicate"  or  fastidious  who  can  reject  substantial  advantages  for  fanciful  de- 
fects. Though  Peter  aim  not  at  embellishments,  he  possesses  great  strength 
and  energy  of  language,  and  generally  writes  with  more  accuracy  than  most  of 
the  American  authors,  who,  be  it  observed,  have  a  phraseology  peculiar  to 
themselves.  This  tract  contains  much  important  information,  and  we  strenuously 
recommend  it  to  the  serious  perusal  of  our  countrymen ;  particularly  to  such 
of  them  as  are  disposed  to  question  the  superior  advantages  which  they  enjoy, 
over  ALL  republican  states  under  our  own  well-poised  and  limited  MONARCHY. 
The  following  admonitions  with  which  the  author  concludes,  will,  we  trust, 
have  a  due  effect  on  the  minds  of  those  to  whom  they  are  addressed.  "  Such, 
Britons,  is  the  fruit  of  republican  government  here ;  not  among  the  apish  and 
wolfish  French,  but  among  a  people  descended  from  the  same  ancestors  as  your- 
selves. When  your  monarchial  government  bears  such  fruits,  let  it,  I  say,  be 
hewn  down  and  cast  into  the  fire ;  but  till  that  disgraceful  and  dreadful  day 
comes,  watch  over  it  with  care  and  defend  it  to  the  last  drop  of  your  blood, 
preserve  it  as  you  would  a  golden  casket,  the  apple  of  your  eye,  or  the  last  dear 
gift  of  your  dying  parents.  With  this  I  conclude,  praying  the  God  of  our  fathers 
to  lead  you  in  the  practice  of  all  their  virtues,  to  give  wisdom  to  your  minds  and 
strength  to  your  arms,  to  keep  you  firm  and  united,  honest  and  generous,  loyal, 
brave,  and  free ;  but  above  all,  to  preserve  you  from  the  desolating  and  degrad- 
ing curse  of  revolutionary  madness  and  modern  republicanism." 


PETER  PORCUPINE'S  WILL. 

[By  WILLIAM  COBBETT.  Published  in  The  Anti-Jacobin  Review  anJMagazme; 
or  Monthly  Political  and  Literary  Censor :  from  July  to  December,  1798.  Vol. 
i.,  pp.  7-25-8.— ED.] 

IN  the  name  of  Fun,  Amen.  I  PETER  PORCUPINE,  Pamphleteer  and  News- 
monger, being  (as  yet)  sound  both  in  body  and  in  mind,  do,  this  fifteenth  day  of 
April,  in  the  Year  of  our  Lord,  one  thousand  seven  hundred  and  ninety-seven, 
make,  declare,  and  publish,  this  my  LAST  WILL  AND  TESTAMENT,  in  manner, 
form,  and  substance  following ;  to  wit : 
IN  PRIMIS, 

I  leave  my  body  to  Doctor  Michael  Lieb,  a  member  of  the  Legislature  of 
Pennsylvania,  to  be  by  him  dissected  (if  he  knows  how  to  do  it)  in  presence  of 
the  Rump  of  the  Democratic  Society.  In  it  they  will  find  a  heart  that  held  them 
in  abhorrence,  that  never  palpitated  at  their  threats,  and  that,  to  its  last  beat, 
bade  them  defiance.  But  my  chief  motive  for  making  this  bequest  is,  that  my 
spirit  may  look  down  with  contempt  on  their  cannibal-like  triumph  over  a 
breathless  corpse. 

Item.  As  I  make  no  doubt  that  the  above  said  Doctor  Lieb  (and  some  other 
Doctors  that  I  could  mention)  would  like  very  well  to  skin  me,  I  request  that 
they,  or  one  of  them  may  do  it,  and  that  the  said  Lieb's  father  may  tan  my 
skin  ;  after  which  I  desire  my  Executors  to  have  seven  copies  of  my  Works  com- 
plete, bound  in  it,  one  copy  to  be  presented  to  the  Five  Sultans  of  France,  one  to 
each  of  their  Divans,  one  to  the  Governor  of  Pennsylvania,  to  Citizens  Maddison, 
Giles,  and  Gallatin  one  each,  and  the  remaining  one  to  the  Democratic  Society  of 
Philadelphia,  to  be  carefully  preserved  among  their  archives. 

Item.  To  the  Mayor,  Aldermen,  and  Councils  of  the  City  of  Philadelphia,  I 
bequeath  all  the  sturdy  young  hucksters,  who  infest  the  market,  and  who  to 
maintain  their  bastards,  tax  the  honest  inhabitants  many  thousand  pounds 
annually.  I  request  them  to  take  them  into  their  worshipful  keeping ;  to  chasten 
their  bodies  for  the  good  of  their  souls  ;  and  moreover  to  keep  a  sharp  look-out 
after  their  gallants  ;  and  remind  the  latter  of  the  old  proverb :  Touch,  pot,  touch 
penny. 

Item.    To  T J son,  Philosopher,  I  leave  a  curious  Norway  Spider,  with 

a  hundred  legs  and  nine  pair  of  eyes  ;  likewise  the  first  black  cut-throat  general 
he  can  catch  hold  of,  to  be  Head  alive,  in  order  to  determine  with  more  certainty 

the  real  cause  of  the  dark  colour  of  his  skin  ;  and  should  the  said  T J son 

survive  Banneker  the  Almanack  Maker  ;  I  request  he  will  get  the  brains  of  said 
Philomath  carefully  dissected,  to  satisfy  the  world  in  what  respects  they  differ 
from  those  of  a  white  man. 

Item.  To  the  Philosophical  Society  of  Philadelphia,  I  will  and  bequeath  a 
correct  copy  of  Thornton  s  plan  for  abolishing  the  use  of  the  English  language, 
and  for  introducing  in  its  stead  a  republican  one,  the  representative  characters  of 
which  bear  a  strong  resemblance  to  pot-hooks  and  hangers ;  and  for  the  dis- 
covery of  which  plan,  the  said  society  did,  in  the  year  1793,  grant  to  the  said 
language  maker  500  dollars  premium.  It  is  my  earnest  desire,  that  the  copy  of 
this  valuable  performance,  which  I  hereby  present,  may  be  shown  to  all  the 
travelling  literati,  as  a  proof  of  the  ingenuity  of  the  author  and  of  the  wisdom  of 
the  society. 

Item.  To  Doctor  Benjamin  Rush,  I  will  and  bequeath  a  copy  of  The  Centor 
for  January,  1797  ;  but,  upon  the  express  condition,  that  he  does  not  in  anywise 


318  POETBY   OP 

or  guise,  either  at  the  time  of  my  death,  or  Six  months  after,  pretend  to  speak, 
write,  or  publish  an  eulogium  on  me,  my  calling  or  character,  either  literary, 
military,  civil,  or  political. 

Item.  To  my  dear  fellow  labourer  Noah  Webster,  "gentleman-citizen," 
Esq.  and  News-man,  I  will  and  bequeath  a  prognosticating  barometer  of  curious 
construction  and  great  utility,  by  which,  at  a  single  glance,  the  said  Noah  will 
be  able  to  discern  the  exact  state  that  the  public  mind  will  be  in  in  the  ensuing 
year,  and  will  thereby  be  enabled  to  trim  by  degrees  and  not  expose  himself  to 
detection,  as  he  now  does  by  his  sudden  lee-shore  tacks.  I  likewise  bequeath  to 
the  said  "gentleman-citizen,"  six  Spanish  milled  dollars,  to  be  expended  on  a 
new  plate  of  his  portrait  at  the  head  of  his  spelling  book,  that  which  graces  it  at 
present  being  so  ugly  that  it  scares  the  children  from  their  lessons ;  but  this 
legacy  is  to  be  paid  him  only  upon  condition  that  he  leave  out  the  title  of 
'Squire,  at  the  bottom  of  said  picture,  which  is  extremely  odious  in  an  American 
school-book,  and  must  inevitably  tend  to  corrupt  the  political  principles  of  the 
republican  babies  that  behold  it.  And  I  do  most  earnestly  desire,  exhort  and 
conjure  the  said  'Squire  news-man,  to  change  the  title  of  his  paper,  The  Minerva, 
for  that  of  The  Political  Centaur. 

Item.  To  F.  A.  Mnghlenburg,  Esq.,  Speaker  of  a  late  house  of  Representa- 
tives of  the  United  States,  I  leave  a  most  superbly  finished  statue  of  Janus. 

Item.  To  Tom  the  Tinker,  I  leave  a  liberty-cap,  a  tricoloured  cockade,  a 
wheel-barrow  full  of  oysters,  and  a  hogshead  of  grog  :  I  also  leave  him  three 
blank  checks  on  the  bank  of  Pennsylvania,  leaving  to  him  the  task  of  filling 
them  up  ;  requesting  him,  however,  to  be  rather  more  merciful  than  he  has 
shown  himself  heretofore. 

Item.  To  the  Governor  of  Pennsylvania,  and  to  the  late  President  and 
Cashier  of  the  Bank  of  the  said  State,  as  to  joint  Legatees,  I  will  and  bequeath 
that  good  old  proverb  :  Honesty  is  the  best  policy.  And  this  legacy  I  have  chosen 
for  these  worthy  gentlemen,  as  the  only  thing  about  which  I  am  sure  they  will 
never  disagree. 

Item.  To  T Coxe,  of  Philadelphia,  citizen,  I  will  and  bequeath  a  crown 

of  hemlock,  as  a  recompense  for  his  attempt  to  throw  an  odium  on  the 
administration  of  General  Washington ;  and  I  most  positively  enjoin  my 
Executors,  to  see  that  the  said  crown  be  shaped  exactly  like  that  which  this, 
spindle-shanked  legatee  wore  before  Gen.  Howe,  when  he  made  his  triumphal 
entry  into  Philadelphia. 

Item.  To  Thomas  Lord  Bradford  (otherwise  called  Goosy  Tom),  Book-seller, 
Printer,  News-man,  and  member  of  the  Philosophical  Society  of  Philadelphia, 
I  will  and  bequeath  a  copy  of  the  peerage  of  Great  Britain,  in  order  that  the 
said  Lord  Thomas  may  the  more  exactly  ascertain  what  probability  there  is  of 
his  succeeding  to  the  seat,  which  his  noble  relation  now  fills  in  the  House  of  Lords. 

Item.  To  all  and  singular  the  authors  in  the  United  States,  whether  they 
write  verse  or  prose,  I  will  and  bequeath  a  copy  of  my  Life  and  Adventures  ;  and 
I  advise  the  said  authors  to  study  with  particular  care  the  40th  and  41st  pages 
thereof ;  more  especially  and  above  all  things,  I  exhort  and  conjure  them  never 
to  publish  it  together,  though  the  bookseller  should  be  a  saint. 

Item.  To  Edmund  Randolph,  Esq.,  late  Secretary  of  State,  to  Mr  J.  A. 
Dallas,  Secretary  of  the  State  of  Pennsylvania,  and  to  His  Excellency,  Thomas 
Miffin,  Governor  of  the  said  unfortunate  State,  I  will  and  bequeath,  to  each  of 
them,  a  copy  of  the  sixteenth  paragraph  of  Fauchet's  intercepted  letter. 

Item.  To  Citizen  John  Swanwick,  member  of  Congress,  by  the  will  and 
consent  of  the  sovereign  people,  I  leave  bills  of  Exchange  on  London  to  an 
enormous  amount ;  they  are  all  protested,  indeed,  but  if  properly  managed,  may  be 
turned  to  good  account.  I  likewise  bequeath  to  the  said  John  a  small  treatise 
by  an  Italian  author,  wherein  the  secret  of  pleasing  the  ladies  is  developed, 
and  reduced  to  a  mere  mechanical  operation,  without  the  least  dependence  on 
the  precarious  aid  of  the  passions.  Hoping  that  these  instances  of  my  liberality 
will  produce,  in  the  mind  of  the  little  legislature,  effects  quite  different  from 
those  produced  therein  by  the  King  of  Great  Britain's  pension  to  his  parents. 

Item.  To  the  Editors  of  the  Boston  Chronicle,  the  New  York  Argus,  and  the 
Philadelphia  Merchants'  Advertiser,  I  will  and  bequeath  one  ounce  of  modesty  and 
love  of  truth,  to  be  equally  divided  between  them. 


THE   ANTI-JACOBIN.  319 

I  should  have  been  more  liberal  in  this  bequest,  were  I  not  well  assured, 
that  x>ne  ounce  is  more  than  they  will  ever  make  use  of. 

Item.  To  Franklin  Bache,  Editor  of  the  Aurora  of  Philadelphia,  I  will  and 
bequeath  a  small  bundle  of  French  assignats,  which  I  brought  with  me  from 
the  country  of  equality.  If  these  should  be  too  light  in  value  for  his  pressing 
exigencies,  I  desire  my  executors,  or  any  one  of  them,  to  bestow  on  him  a 
second  part  to  what  he  has  lately  received  in  Southwark :  and  as  a  further 
proof  of  my  good  will  and  affection,  I  request  him  to  accept  of  a  gag  and  a 
brand  new  pair  of  fetters,  which,  if  he  should  refuse,  I  will  and  bequeath  him 
In  lieu  thereof— my  malediction. 

Item.  To  my  beloved  countrymen,  the  people  of  Old  England,  I  will  and 
bequeath  a  copy  of  Doctor  Priestley's  Charily  Sermon  for  the  benefit  of  poor  Emi- 
grants ;  and  to  the  said  preaching  philosopher  himself,  I  bequeath  a  heart  full 
of  disappointinent,.grief,  and  despair. 

Item.  To  the  good  people  of  France,  who  remain  attached  to  their  sovereign, 
particularly  to  those  among  whom  I  was  hospitably  received,  I  bequeath  each  a 
good  strong  dagger :  hoping  most  sincerely  that  they  may  yet  find  courage 
enough  to  carry  ihem  to  the  hearts  of  their  abominable  tyrants. 

Item.    To  Citizen  M oe,  I  \yill  and  bequeath  my  chamber  looking-glass. 

It  is  a  plain  but  exceeding  true  mirror ;  in  it  ne  will  see  the  exact  likeness  of  a 
traitor,  who  has  bartered  the  honour  and  interest  of  his  country  to  a  perfidious 
and  savage  enemy. 

Ii>  ni.  To  the  Republican  Britons,  who  have  fled  from  the  hands  of  justice 
in  their  own  country,  and  who  are  a  scandal,  a  nuisance,  and  a  disgrace  to  this, 
I  bequeath  hunger  and  nakedness,  scorn  and  reproach  ;  and  I  doliereby  posi- 
tively enjoin  on  my  executors  to  contribute  five  hundred  dollars  towards  the 
erection  of  gallowses  and  gibbets,  for  the  accommodation  of  the  said  imported 
patriots,  when  the  legislators  of  this  unhappy  state  shall  have  the  wisdom  to 
countenance  such  useful  establishments. 

Item..  My  friend,  J.  T.  Callender,  the  runaway  from  Scotland,  is,  of  course, 
a  partaker  in  the  last  mentioned  legacy  ;  but  as  a  particular  mark  of  my  atten- 
tion, I  will  and  bequeath  him  twenty  feet  of  pine  plank,  which  I  request  my 
executors  to  see  made  into  a  pillory,  to  be  kept  for  his  particular  use,  till  a 
gibbet  can  be  prepared. 

Item.  To  Tom  Paine,  the  author  of  Common  Sense,  Rights  of  Man,  Age  of 
Season,  and  a  Letter  to  General  Washington,  I  bequeath  a  strong  hempen  collar, 
as  the  only  legacy  I  can  think  of  that  is  worthy  of  him  as  wellas  best  adapted 
to  render  his  death  in  some  measure  as  infamous  as  his  life  :  and  I  do  hereby 
direct  and  order  my  Executors  to  send  it  to  him  by  the  first  safe  conveyance 
with  my  compliments,  and  request  that  he  would  make  use  of  it  without  delay, 
that  the  national  razor  may  not  be  disgraced  by  the  head  of  such  a  monster. 

Item.  To  the  gaunt  outlandish  orator,  vulgarly  called  the  Political  Sinner, 
who  in  the  just  order  of  things  follows  next  after  the  last  mentioned  legatee, 
I  bequeath  the  honour  of  partaking  in  his  catastrophe  ;  that  in  their  deaths,  as 
well  as  in  their  lives,  all  the  world  may  exclaim  :  "  See  how  rogues  hang  together  ". 

Item.  To  all  and  singular  the  good  people  of  these  States,  I  leave  peace, 
union,  abundance,  happiness,  untarnished  honour,  and  an  unconquerable  ever- 
lasting hatred  to  the  French  Revolutionists  and  their  destructive  abominable 
principles. 

Item.  To  each  of  my  Subscribers  I  leave  a  quill,  hoping  that  in  their  hands 
it  may  become  a  sword  against  every  thing  that  is  hostile  to  the  government 
and  independence  of  their  country. 

Lastly.  To  my  three  brothers,  Paul,  Simon,  and  Dick,  I  leave  my  whole 
estate,  as  well  real  as  personal  (first  paying  the  foregoing  legacies)  to  be  equally 
divided  between  them,  share  and  share  alike.  And  I  do  hereby  make  ana  con- 
stitute my  said  three  brothers  the  Executors  of  this  my  LAST  WILL  ;  to  see  the 
same  performed,  according  to  its  true  intent  and  meaning,  as  far  as  in  their 
power  lies. 

PETER  PORCUPINE. 

Witnesses  present, 

Philo  Fun,      j. 
Jack  Jockus. ' 


THE  VISION  OF  LIBERTY. 
Written  in  the  manner  of  Spenser. 

[As  the  virulent  style  of  political  writing  prevalent  ninety  years  ago  is  now 
but  little  known,  the  present  edition  of  The  Poetry  of  the  Anti-Jacobin  seemed  a 
convenient  medium  for  giving  some  specimens  of  it  which  appeared  in  The  Anti- 
Jacobin  Review  and  Magazine,  a  work  conducted  on  the  same  principles,  but  by 
different  writers,  and  with  the  cognizance  of  the  government.  Two  of  them 
were  by  W.  COBBETT,  who,  had  he  been  less  arrogant  and  contentious,  and  more 
consistent,  would  have  been,  in  the  words  of  Lord  Balling,  "a  very  great  man 
in  the  world  ;  as  it  was  he  made  a  great  noise  in  it ".  (See  pp.  311-319.) 

The  y-ision  of  Liberty  is  by  C.  KIRKPATRICK  SHARPE,  an  author  and  artist 
much  esteemed  by  Scottish  antiquarians,  of  which  specimens  only  need  be 
given.  Of  The  Anarchists,  the  author  is  not  known.] 

I. 

O  WRETCHED  man,  how  long  wilt  thou  refuse 

Thy  Maker's  favour,  and  His  mercy  great  ? 

How  long  thy  worldly  happiness  abuse, 

And  growl  and  grumble  at  thy  present  state  ? 

Seeking  accursed  change  both  soon  and  late, 

And  newest  modes  allured  still  to  try — 

England,  beware  God's  wrath  to  aggravate, 

For  foreign  magic  blinds  thy  charmed  eye, 

And  Liberty,  sweet  Liberty,  is  now  the  constant  cry. 

II. 

As  on  my  couch  in  slumber's  arms  I  lay, 

A  vision  did  my  senses  entertain  ; 

Of  late,  me  thought  in  France  I  miss'd  my  way, 

Amid  a  columnless  deserted  plain  ; 

No  man  or  beast  upon  it  did  remain, 

Swept  off  by  Discord's  wide  destroying  strife : 

Ne  planted  fence,  ne  field  of  waving  grain, 

Marking  the  toiling  farmer's  busy  life, 

But  ruined  huts  and  castles,  brent,  were  wondrous  rife. 

III. 

Yet  on  this  plain,  most  goodly  to  behold, 

Saw  I  a  temple  tow'ring  to  the  sky, 

The  dome  where  of  was  made  of  basest  gold, 

Most  false,  but  yet  most  lovely  to  the  eye  ; 

And  rotting  pillars  reareth  it  on  high, 

Of  ghastly  human  heads,  and  clotted  gore, 

With  dust,  y'mixt  the  mortar  doth  supply, 

While  foulest  birds  still  round  this  temple  soar, 

And  filthy  serpents  hiss,  and  giant  hyenas  roar. 


POETKY  OF  THE  ANTI-JACOBIN.          321 

IV. 

Among  the  heads  that  did  the  mass  compose, 
Three  royal  skulls  were  there— one  of  a  king- 
Meek  saint,  who  never  once  revil'd  his  foes, 
His  bloody  foes  that  him  to  scaffold  bring  ; 
One  of  a  maid  ;  O  heaven  !  that  I  could  sing 
With  Spenser's  tongue,  her  spotless  purity, 
Her  holy  zeal,  in  courts  so  rare  a  thing, 
By  lawless  fiends  condemn'd  she  was  to  die, 
And  sent,  untimely  sent,  to  seek  her  native  sky. 

V. 

The  third  I  marked  with  melancholy  eyes, 

A  female  head,  that  once  a  crown  did  wear, 

Cut  off  in  life's  full  bjoom,  now  low  she  lies, 

The  loose  loves  weeping  o'er  her  early  bier, 

Nor  Virtue's  self  denies  a  tender  tear  ; 

So  young  a  creature,  wonder  not  she  fell, 

And  left  the  paths  of  chastity  severe, 

Debauched  by  a  court  where  lust  did  dwell 

Like  treach'rous  Circe,  skill'd  in  many  a  witching  spell. 


Ah  !  where  are  now  her  gorgeous  robes  of  state, 

The  glitt'ring  gems  that  did  ner  fairness  deck  ? 

The  cringing  nobles  that  on  her  did  wait, 

The  high-born  dames  that  kneeled  at  her  beck  ? 

Alas !  a  ghastly  face,  a  bloody  neck, 

A  simple  winding-sheet  is  now  her  share ; 

Look  here,  ye  proud  ones,  on  this  mighty  wreck, 

And  learn  what  perishable  stuff  ye  are, 

From  her  poor  mangled  carcase,  once  so  sweet  and  fair. 

VII. 

And  on  the  ground  there  lay  a  murder' d  child, 

A  piteous  sight  it  was,  and  full  of  woe, 

Who,  when  alive,  by  every  art  deflFd, 

With  poison,  they  at  last  did  overthrow, 

Wretches,  who  never  ruth  or  conscience  know  ; 

O  lovely  flowret  cropt  by  villain  hands, 

How  will  thy  butchers  dread  th'  almighty  brow, 

Arui'd  with  frowns,  when  each  at  judgment  stands, 

And  God  the  meed  of  murder  from  His  throne  commands. 

VIII. 

Then  o'er  the  portal  was  this  motto  plac'd, 

"  The  house  of  liberty,"  in  gold  y'wnt, 

And,  vent'ring  in,  I  stood  like  one  ainaz'd 

Such  sights  of  horror  on  my  heart-strings  smit. 

There  Infidelity,  in  moody  fit, 

Hugg'd  Suicide — there  Rage,  and  deadly  Fears, 

There  Lechery,  with  goatish  leer  did  sit, 

And  Murder,  quaffing  up  his  victim's  tears, 

With  thousand  other  crimes,  too  foul  for  human  ears. 

IX. 

In  'mid  the  house  an  image  stood  in  state, 
Like  to  VOLTAIRE  in  visage  and  in  shape, 
Wither'd  his  heart  with  fellest  rage  and  hate 
Shrivell'd  and  lean  his  carcase  like  an  ape 

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And  num'rous  crowds  upon  the  same  did  gape, 

As  he  all-naked  stood  to  every  eye  ; 

Above  an  altar  covered  with  crape, 

And  formed  of  bis  books  one  might  descry, 

Profane  and  lewd  it  was,  and  cramm'd  with  many  a  lie. 

X. 

And  still  from  'neath  the  altar  roared  he, 

As  from  a  bull  lowing  in  cavern  deep, 

"  Come  worship  me,  0  men,  come  worship  me ; 

Spit  on  the  cross,  of  Jesus  take  no  keep, 

I  promise  you  an  everlasting  sleep ; 

The  soul  and  body  both  shall  turn  to  clay ; 

Ye  penitents,  why  do  ye  sigh  and  weep  ? 

Let  not  damnation's  terrors  you  affray, 

Come  learn  my  lore  that  drives  all  foolish  fears  away  ". 


XIV. 

Next  came  that  cursed  felon  THOMAS  PAINE, 

Mounted  upon  a  tiger  fierce  and  fell ; 

And  still  a  shower  of  blood  on  him  doth  rain. 

With  tears  that  from  the  eyes  of  widows  well ; 

Loud  in  his  ears  the  cries  of  orphans  yell  ; 

The  axe  impending  o'er  his  head  alway 

While  devils  wait  to  catch  his  soul  to  hell, 

The  knave  is  flll'd  with  anguish  and  dismay— 

And  anxious  round  he  looks,  even  straws  do  him  affray. 

XV. 

Then  saw  I  mounted  on  a  braying  ass 
WILLIAM  and  MARY,  sooth,  a  couple  jolly ; 
Who  married,  note  ye  how  it  came  to  pass, 
Although  each  held  that  marriage  was  but  folly. 


XVIII. 

Then  came  MARIA  HELEN  WILLIAMS  STONE, 
Sitting  upon  a  goat  with  bearded  chin  ; 
And  she  hath  written  volumes  many  a  one  ; 
Better  the  idle  jade  had  learned  to  spin. 


XIX. 

Next  mounted  on  a  monster  like  a  louse, 

With  parchments  loaded,  came  a  man  of  law,* 

Sprung  from  an  ancient  Caledonian  house, 

Cunningly  could  he  quibble  out  a  flaw ; 

And  this  sage  man  would  chatter  like  a  daw, 

To  prove  the  moon  green  cheese,  and  black,  pure  white, 

Spitting  out  treason  from  his  greedy  maw  ; 

To  breed  sedition  was  his  chief  delight, 

And  scratch  men's  scabs  to  ulcers  still  with  all  his  might. 


[*  Lord  Erskine.— ED.] 


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XX. 

Then  on  an  Irish  bull  of  skin  and  bone, 

A  foul  churl  *  rode,  who  still  a  harp  would  strum, 

A  harp  Hibernian,  stringless  saving  one, 

Well  tun'd  to  harsh  sedition's  growling  ham ; 

He  hit  the  bull  on  which  he  had  his  bum 

Full  many  a  bitter  pang,  nor  gave  him  rest — 

Dealing  his  blows  on  Teagues  that  round  him  come, 

Grieving  the  while  for  man  and  brute  opprest, 

Chaunting  the  Irish  howl,  abhorr'd  of  man  and  beast. 

XXI. 

O  IRELAND,  spot  accurs'd— tho'  glorious  fair, 
Shines  there  the  sun,  the  flowers  enamell'd  blow, 
And  scent,  with  fragrance  sweet,  the  balmy  air, 
Rippling  the  gliding  pools  that  softly  flow ; 
No  noxious  reptile  there  to  man  a  foe 
Abides,  but  black  revenge  with  cautious  plan, 
Cool-blooded  cruelty  with  torments  slow, 
Springs  rank ;  with  weeds  the  goodly  soil's  o'er-ran, 
And  all  the  reptile's  venom  rankles  in  the  man. 

XXII. 

Then  in  a  gorgeous  car  of  beaten  gold, 

Drove  on  a  portly  man,  of  mighty  rank.t 

A  person  comely,  of  extraction  old  ; 

But,  carrion-like,  his  reputation  stank ; 

Sly  was  the  wight,  with  crafty  quip  and  crank, 

To  cram  with  glittering  coin  his  bursting  bags  ; 

Yet  whilom  taxing-men  play'd  him  a  prank, 

By  catching  in  their  traps  some  strayed  nags, 

And  eke  some  livery  slaves,  in  miser's  livery  rags. 

XXIII. 

Then  on  a  turtle  came  proud  London's  Mayor, 
Followed  by  Aldermen,  a  frowsy  crew, 
Strong  smelling  of  Cheap-side,  and  luscious  fair, 
Yet  apoplexy  made  his  followers  few. 
Long  antlers  on  the  head  of  each  man  grew, 
So  that  they  seem'd  a  host  of  moving  horn  ; 
Anon  as  on  they  came  they'd  mump  and  chew, 
Stuffing  their  guts  from  da wning  of  the  morn, 
Till  shades  of  evening  fell— for  eating  only  born. 

XXIV. 

On  a  cock  sparrow  fed  with  Spanish  flies, 
A  swilling  Captain  came,  with  liquor  mellow, 
And  still  the  crowd  in  hideous  uproar  cries,  t 

"  Sing  us  a  bawdy  song,  thou  d d  good  fellow  ". 

Incontinent  he  sets  himself  to  bellow, 

And  shouts  with  all  the  strength  that  in  him  lies  ; 

The  Citizets  exclaim,  "  He's  sans  pareilly  O"; 

The  Citizens  in  raptures  roll  their  eyes, 

And  drink  with  leathern  ears,  the  fool's  lewd  ribaldries. 

[*  T.  Moore  in  his  early  college  days.— En.) 

[t  Francis,  fifth  Duke  of  Bedford,  see  BalM.—  ED.] 

[»  Capt.  Charles  Morris.— Eo.) 


324  POETRY   OF   THE    ANTI-JACOBIN. 

XXV. 

On  came  these  wights,  and  many  more  beside, 
Thick  as  the  grains  of  sand  upon  the  shore, 
Thick  as  a  swarm  of  flies  in  summer  tide, 
That  on  a  dunghill  hive  and  hover  o_'er  ; 
Most  had  their  hides  all  scall'd,  their  trousers  tore  ; 
Many  sans  breeches,  shameless  trudg"d  along, 
And  many  a  noble  knave  and  titled  w — — e, 
With  Irish  bog-trotters  would  crowd  and  throng, 
Carolling  catches  base,  and  filthy  French  chanson. 

XXVL 

Like  roaring  waves  they  cover' d  all  the  plain  ; 

And  tho'  equality  they  still  requir'd, 

Each  cudgell'd  sore  his  breast  with  might  and  main, 

Each  to  get  foremost  ardently  desir'd. 

Some  fell  into  the  dirt,  and  foul  were  inir'd, 

The  rest  rode  over  them  and  took  no  heed. 

Their  yells,  with  patriotic  ardour  fired, 

So  made  my  flesh  to  quake  with  very  dread, 

That  Morpheus  left  my  couch,  and  all  the  vision  fled. 

The  insertion  of  the  foregoing  poem  (which  was  never  printed)  into  your 
entertaining  and  useful  publication,  will  much  oblige, 

Your  humble  servant, 

C.  K. 


INDEX  TO   THE   ANTI-JACOBIN. 
±th  Edition,  1799;  2  vols.,  8vo. 


A. 

Abuse,  a  new  and  approved  method  of  conveying,  vol.  i.,  p.  502. 

Acme  and  Septimius,  or  the  Happy  Union,  vol.  i.,  p.  452. 

Advertisements :  Government  strenuously  advised  to  withdraw  them  from  the 

Jacobin  Papers,  vol.  ii.,  p.  119. 
Advertisements,  Government,  withdrawn  from  the  Jacobin  Papers,  vol.  ii.,  pp. 

308,490. 
Address  of  City  of  Londonderry  to  Lord  Camden,  vol.  i.,  p.  356  ;  His  Lordship's 

Reply,  358. 
Ad—  r,  Mr.  Robert,  tries  to  imitate  Mr.  Burke's  style,  vol.  i.,  p.  377— fails  egre- 

giously— mistakes  a  coffin  for  a  corpse — transmutes  the  head  of  the  house 

of  Russell  into  lead,  p.  378— writes  half  a  letter  to  Mr.  Fox— and  puts  the 

world  in  high  good  humour,  p.  422. 

Agricola :  his  letter  on  the  advantages  of  a  well-regulated  economy,  vol.  i.,  p.  583. 
Anecdotes  respecting  Lord  Duncan's  victory,  vol.  i.,  pp.  38,  107. 
Appropriate  Speech— See  Lord  William  Russell. 
Assessed  Taxes :  benefits  arising  from  trebling  them,  vol.  i.,  p.  16 — horrible  effects 

of,  vol.  i.,  pp.  347,  503. 
Assessed  Taxes  evaded  by  the  Duke  of  Bedford— See  Bedford,  Duke  of. 

B. 

Bachelor:  his  letter,  vol.  i.,  p.  258— his  definition  of  a  patriot,  vol.  i.,  p.  261. 

Bacchus :  a  life  of  him  forged  by  the  Morninq  Chronicle  for  the  diabolical  purpose 
of  burlesquing  the  life  and  death,  and  resurrection  and  ascension  of  Our 
BLESSED  SAVIOUK,  vol.  i.,  p.  220,  Ac. 

Ballynahinch,  a  loyal  town  of  Lord  Moira's— a  meeting  of  rebel  delegates  held 
there,  vol.  i.,  p.  83. 

Ballynahinch,  a  new  song,  vol.  ii.,  p.  603. 

Ballynahinchers :  loyal  countenances  of,  read  by  Lord  Moira,  vol.  ii.,  p.  607— 
loyal  professions  of,  heard  by  ditto— rob  the  king's  stores — debauch  his 
troops— attack  them,  and  are  cut  to  pieces,  vol.  ii.,  p.  519. 

Bedford,  Duke  of :  his  Surcharge  of  25  Servants  and  17  Horses,  vol  i.,  pp.  230,  254. 

Bedford,  Duke  of :  justified  for  evading  the  Assessed  Taxes,  by  the  Morning 
Post,  vol.  i.,  p.  255— and  by  the  Morning  Chronicle,  p.  297 — proved  to  have 
gained  much  honour  by  evading  the  Assessed  Taxes,  by  the  Morning  Post, 
vol.  i.,  p.  256 — cleared  from  any  attempt  to  evade  th«  Assessed  Taxes,  by  % 
note  of  admiration,  by  the  Courier,  p.  350. 

Beresford,  Mr.,  character  of  him,  vol.  ii.,  p.  556. 

Bit  of  an  Ode  to  Mr.  Fox,  vol.  i.,  p.  422. 

Blockade  of  the  Seine,  vol.  i.,  pp.  571,  616. 


326  POETRY   OF   THE    ANTI- JACOBIN. 

Blasphemy  attempted  without  success  by  the  Morning  Post,  vol.  i.,  p.  505— and 
by  the  Courier— fully  succeeded  in  by  the  Morning  Chronicle,  vol.  i.,  p.  325, 
&c. 

Bosville,  Mr.,  Banker  to  the  Corresponding  Society,  vol.  i.,  p.  409. 

Broicnrigg,  Mrs. :  Inscription  for  the  Door  of  her  Cell  in  Newgate,  vol.  i.,  p.  35. 

British  Merchant,  his  Letter  on  the  misrepresentations  of  the  Party,  with  respect 
to  the  continuance  of  the  War,  vol.  i.,  p.  593. 

Brissot's  Ghost,  vol.  ii. ,  p.  236. 

Burdett,  Sir  Something  :  his  affectionate  mention  of  Mr.  Paine  at  the  Shake- 
speare Tavern,  vol.  i.,  p.  136. 

Burdett,  Sir  Francis,  runner  to  the  Corresponding  Society,  vol.  i. ,  p.  408. 

BuonaparM :  his  health  given  by  Mr.  Macfungus,  vol.  i.,  p.  35 — his  Letter  to  the 
Commandant  at  Zante",  vol.  ii.,  p.  535. 

0. 

Camille  Jordan,  asserts  that  one  of  our  Jacobin  Newspapers  is  in  the  pay  of 
France,  vol.  i.,  pp.  507,  622  ;  vol.  ii.,  pp.  17,  51,  86,  488. 

Cambridge  Intelligencer,  detected  and  exposed,  vol.  ii.,  pp.  263,  296. 

Chevy  Chase  ;  a  Ballad  to  the  Tune  of,  vol.  ii.,  p.  21. 

Choice,  The  :  an  Ode,  vol.  i.,  p.  263. 

Clare,  The  Earl  of,  Character  of,  vol.  ii.,  p.  544. 

Clare,  Earl  of :  proposes  a  question  respecting  the  extent  of  Lord  Moira's 
DUPERY,  vol.  ii.,  p.  518. 

Clever :  See  Mr  Robert  Ad— r,  vol.  i.,  p.  422. 

Coughing  and  laughing :  See  Mr.  John  Nicholls,  vol.  i.,  p.  186. 

Courtney,  Mr.,  fully  convicted  of  kidnapping — rhymes,  vol.  i.,  p.  376. 

Coalition,  The  New  :  an  Ode,  vol.  i.,  p.  599. 

Coalition  of  Kings,  vol.  ii.,  p.  546. 

Constant  Reader :  his  Letter  on  the  Designs  of  our  foreign  and  domestic  Enemies, 
vol.  i.,  pp.  544,  597. 

Courier,  The  ;  a  mad— and  foolish— and  odious— and  contemptible  paper,  passim. 
Picked  up  by  a  Gentleman  in  the  streets,  for  the  sake  of  its  superior  infor- 
mation !  !  !  vol.  ii.,  p.  230. 

D. 

Detector:  his  Letter  on  the  pretended  Treaty  of  Pavia,  vol.  i.,  p.  474— On  the 
Treaty  of  Pilnitz,  vol.  ii.,  p.  37— On  the  Coalition  of  Kings,  vol.  ii.,  p.  546. 

Description  of  a  very  extraordinary  Plant  now  growing  at  Paris,  vol.  ii.,  p.  578. 

Desci-iption  of  Mr.  Fox's  Radical  Reform,  vol.  i.,  p.  396. 

Description  of  a  Scribbler  for  the  Jacobin  Papers,  vol.  i.,  p.  613. 

Description  of  the  Jacobin  Prints,  vol.  ii.,  p.  119. 

Decius  Mus :  his  account  of  the  Secessions  in  the  Roman  Common  Wealth,  vol. 
i.,  p.  261. 

Dismissal  of  the  Duke  of  Norfolk,  vol.  i.,  p.  429. 

Duncan,  Lord  :  Anecdotes  relative  to  his  Victory,  vol.  i.,  pp.  38, 107. 

Duke,  The,  and  the  Taxing  Man,  vol.  i.,  p.  265. 

Dupery  of  Lord  Moira,  vol.  ii.,  pp.  36,  518,  &c.,  &c. 

£. 

Edwards.  Mr.  Bryan  :  offers  to  pay  for  Mr.  Nicholls's  dinner  at  the  Crown  and 
Anchor — finds  his  pockets  pick'd— his  exclamation  thereat,  vol.  i.,  p.  410. 

Elegy  on  the  Death  of  Jean  Bon  Saint  Andre,  vol.  ii.,  p.  314. 

Epigram  on  the  Loan  upon  England,  vol.  i.,  p.  267. 

Epistle,  Poetical,  to  the  Editors  of  the  Anti-Jacobin,  vol.  i.,  p.  371.  Reply  to 
ditto,  vol.  i.,  p.  371. 

Epistle,  Poetical,  to  the  Author  of  the  Anti- Jacobin,  vol.  i.,  p.  486. 


INDEX   TO   THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  327 

Srakine,  Mr. :  bis  definition  of  Himself  at  the  Meeting  of  the  Friends  of  Freedom 
— clothed  with  the  infirmities  of  man's  nature— in  many  respects  a  finite 
being  —  disclaims  all  pretensions  to  superhuman  powers — has  been  both  a 
soldier  and  a  sailor — has  a  son  at  Winchester  school — has  been  called  by 
special  retainers  into  many  parts  of  the  country,  travelling  chiefly  in  post- 
chaises— is  of  Noble,  perhaps.  Royal  Blood— has  a  house  at  Hampstead— 
faints  between  the  subdivisions  of  his  discourse— is  conveyed  to  his  car- 
riage— tricked  by  the  chairmen  who  were  hired  to  draw  it— and  finally 
taken  home  by  his  own  horses,  vol.  i.,  p.  125,  &c. 

Expedition  against  Osteud,  vol.  ii.,  pp.  367,  377,  442,  486,  596. 

F. 

Finance,  vol.  i.,  pp.  16,  44,  85,  143,  212,  244,  313,  391,  607  ;  vol.  ii.,  p.  224. 

Foreign  Intelligence,  vol.  i.,  pp.  41,  73. 105,  138,  170,  206,  238,  267,  305,  339,  382,  424, 

453,  491,  528,  560,  600,  629 ;  vol.  il.,  23,  57,  101,  136,  174,  206,  239,  280,  318,  346, 

389, 430,  461,  499,  540,  577,  608. 
Foreign  Intelligence  Extraordinary,  vol.  ii.,  p.  535. 
Fox,  Mr :  his  Speech  at  the  Meeting  of  the  Friends  of  Freedom,  vol.  i.,  p.  92— 

his  Radical  Reform  described,  396 — Celebration  of  his  Nativity  at  the  Crown 

and  Anchor,  408— his  Speech,  412— his  Song,  413— A  Bit  of  an  Ode  to,  422^ 

Lines  written  under  a  Bust  of  him,  489 — his  dismissal  from  the  Privy  Council, 

vol.  ii.,  p.  293. 

French  Revolution,  origin  and  progress  of,  vol.  i.,  p.  22. 
French  Revolution,  not  to  be  defended  or  illustrated  by  a  comparison  with  the 

civil  wars  of  this  country,  vol.  ii.,  p.  17. 
Friend  of  Humanity  and  the  Knife-Grinder,  vol.  i.,  p.  71. 
Friends  of  Freedom,  Meeting  of  the,  vol.  i.,  pp.  91,  125. 
Freemason's  observations  on  the  Duke  of  Norfolk's  toast,  vol.  i.,  p.  587. 
Francis,  Mr. :  his  Novel  of  a  Pamphlet  grievously  abused  by  the  Morning 

Chronicle,  vol.  ii.,  p.  338. 

G. 

German  Stage  :  see  the  "  Rovers  ". 

Government  Advertisements  :  see  Advertisements. 

Guillotine,  la  Sainte  :  a  new  Song  attempted  from  the  French,  vol.  i.,  p.  136. 

H. 

Head  of  the  Russells,  transmuted  into  lead,  vol.  i.,  p.  377. 
Higgins,  Mr.,  of  Saint  Mary  Axe— see  "  Progress  of  Man,"  "  Loves  of  the  Tri- 
angles," the  "Rovers,"  &c. 
How  to  praise  one's  friends,  vol.  i.,  p.  397. 
Horrible  Effects  of  the  Assessed  Taxes,  vol.  i.,  pp.  347,  503. 
Hoche,  General :  his  Instructions  to  Colonel  Tate,  vol.  i.,  pp.  480,  498. 


Imitation  of  Horace,  lib.  iii.  carm.  xxv.,  vol.  i.,  p.  627. 

Instructions  for  Colonel  Tate,  vol.  i.,  pp.  480,  498. 

Introduction,  The,  vol.  i.,  p.  11. 

Introduction  to  the  Poetry,  vol.  i.,  p.  31. 

Invasion,  The  ;  or,  The  British  War  Song,  vol.  i.,  p.  103. 

Ingratitude,  the  characteristic  vice  of  Jacobinism,  vol.  i.,  p.  579. 

Italians :  his  letter  on  the  plunder  of  the  French  in  Italy,  vol.  i.,  p.  367. 

J. 

Jacobin,  The,  vol.  ii.,  p.  133. 

Jacobin  Papers,  an  epidemic  malady  among  them,  vol.  ii.,  p.  120. 


328  POETEY   OF   THE   ANTI- JACOBIN. 

L. 

Latin  Verses,  De  Navali  Laude  Britanniae,  vol.  ii.,  p.  604. 

Lead — see  Head  o/  the  Russells. 

Letter  to  Earl  Moira  on  the  state  of  Ireland,  vol.  i.,  p.  77,  109,  161. 

Letter  from  Letitia  Sourby,  vol.  i.,  p.  195— from  a  Bachelor,  p.  258— from  Decius 
Mus,  p.  261 — from  an  Irishman,  299 — from  Italicus,  367— from  Monitor,  370 
— from  Adolphus  Hicks,  380 — from  a  Constant  Reader,  534 — from  Agricola, 
583 — from  Speculator,  586— from  a  Freemason,  587— from  a  Symposiast,  589 
— from  a  British  Merchant,  593 — from  a  Constant  Reader,  597— from  Mucius, 
623 — from  Historicus,  vol.  ii.,  p.  17— from  an  Irishman,  35— from  a  Sucking 
Whig,  53— from  a  British  Seaman,  93— from  an  Anti-Catiline,  128— from 
Samuel  Shallow— from  a  Friend  to  the  Landed  Interest,  269 — from  Histo- 
ricus, 491— from  A.  Z.,  on  Original  Principles  with  respect  to  the  French 
Revolution,  499 — from  a  Calm  Observer,  525— from  Hibernicus,  554— from 
Perseus,  558 — from  a  Church  of  England  Man,  561— from  Cato,  564— from 
Hortensius,  573. 

Letter  from  General  Buonaparte  to  the  Governor  of  Zant^,  vol.  ii.,  p.  535. 

Lies,  vol.  i.,  pp.  46,  115,  156,  178,  217,  248,  322,  346,  395,  453,  460,  499,  538,  573,  612 ; 
vol.  ii.,  pp.  2,  4,  43,  78,  116,  151,  193,  227,  304,  330,  377,  440,  481,  512. 

Lille,  translation  of  a  letter  from,  vol.  i.,  p.  26. 

Lines  written  at  the  close  of  the  year  1797,  vol.  i.,  p.  330. 

Lines  written  under  the  Bust  of  Charles  Fox  at  the  Crown  and  Anchor,  vol.  i., 
p.  489. 

Lines  written  under  the  Bust  of  a  certain  Orator,  not  at  the  Crown  and  Anchor, 
vol.  i.,  p.  490. 

List  of  ships  and  vessels  belonging  to  France,  Spain,  and  Holland,  taken,  &c., 
since  the  commencement  of  the  war,  vol.  ii.,  p.  120. 

Loves  of  the  Triangles :  a  Mathematical  and  Philosophical  Poem,  vol.  ii.,  pp.  162, 
200,  274. 

M. 

Manners  and  Character  of  the  Age,  vol.  ii.,  p.  564. 

Marten,  Henry  :  inscription  for  his  apartment  in  Chepstow  Castle,  vol.  i.,  p.  35. 

Macfimgus,  Mr. :  his  speech  at  the  meeting  of  the  Friends  of  Freedom,  vol.  i., 
p.  131. 

Meeting  of  the  Friends  of  Freedom,  vol.  i.,  pp.  91, 125. 

Misrepresentations,  vol.  i.,  pp.  19,  47,  117,  157,  180,  218,  252,  293,  324,  347,  396,  436, 
470,  501,  541,  577,  615  ;  vol.  ii.,  pp.  8, 46,  79, 121,  154,  195,  231,  307,  333,  441,  484, 
515,  597. 

Mistakes,  vol.  i.,  pp.  56, 124,  159,  188,  221,  257,  851,  397,  439,  473,  504,  543,  581,  620 ; 
vol.  ii.,  pp.  12,  48,  84,  126,  154,  199,  235,  308,  338,  385,  443,  484,  519. 

Misapprehension  on  the  subject  of  the  proposed  Increase  of  the  Assessed  Taxes, 
vol.  i.,  p.  190. 

Moira,  Lord  :  the  singularity  of  his  conduct,  vol.  i  ,  p.  58— his  story  of  the  Child 
and  the  Rush  Light  contradicted,  p.  188— his  weakness,  p.  252 — lays  it  down 
as  a  general  principle,  that  the  liberty  of  the  press  is  destroyed  in  Ireland, 
p.  274 — is  referred  to  the  Press  and  the  Dublin  Evening  Post,  p.  275 
— famous  for  acting  a  bull,  vol.  ii.,  p.  14 — duped  to  an  extraordinary  degree, 
p.  86 — a  great  physiognomist,  p.  517— a  great  dupe,  p.  518,  &c.,  &c.,  &c. 

Moira,  Lord :  Letter  to,  on  the  State  of  Ireland,  vol.  i.,  pp.  77,  109, 161. 

Moira,  Lord :  Ode  to,  vol.  i.,  p.  380. 

Moira,  the  late  Earl  of :  his  account  of  the  celebrated  enchantress,  Moll  Coggin, 
vol.  i.,  p.  299. 

Moll  Coggin :  the  late  Earl  of  Moira's  account  of  her,  vol.  i.,  p.  299. 

Morning  Chronicle,  calls  the  Thanksgiving  for  Lord  Duncan's  Victory  a  Frenchi- 
fied Farce,  vol.  i.,  p.  157 — insults  the  King — maligns  the  Parliament — belies 
the  Resources — ridicules  and  reviles  the  spirit  of  the  Nation — advises  uncon- 
ditional submission  to  France— declares  that  our  arms  are  without  energy, 
our  hearts  without  courage,  and  our  sword  at  the  service  of  every  puny 
whipster,  vol.  ii.,  p.  85,  <fec. 


INDEX   TO   THE    ANTI-JACOBIN.  329 

Morning  Chronicle  :  its  impiety — its  blasphemy — its  falsehood — its  historical, 
geographical,  and  political  ignorance — its  insolence,  baseness,  and  stupi- 
dity— jxissim,  passim. 

Morning  Chronicle,  the  editor  of:  why  called  the  Pere  du  Chene,  vol.  ii.,  p.  471. 

Musi-tin,  Citizen  :  his  Consolatory  Address  to  his  _Gun-boats,  vol.  ii.,  p.  312 — his 
Affectionate  Address  to  Havre  de  Grace,  vol.  ii.,  p.  498. 

N. 

Narrative  of  the  Riot  at  Tranent,  vol.  i.,  p.  59. 
Jtiaval  History,  vol.  i.,  p.  222. 


Neutral  Navigation,  vol.  i.,  pp.  398,  505. 
JVeic  Morality,  a  Poem,  vol.  ii.,  p.  623. 


New  and  approved  method  of  conveying  abuse,  vol.  i.,  p.  502. 

Neat  Speech — see  Lord  John  Russell. 

Nicholts,  Mr.  John  :  his  faculties  confounded  by  Mr.  Pitt's  speech,  vol.  i. ,  p.  47 
— treated  very  unkindly  by  his  associates,  vol.  i.,  p.  186— has  his  pockets 
picked  by  Mr.  Jekyl  of  his  genuine  speech  at  the  Crown  and  Anchor— offers 
seventeen  of  the  ypuriou*  ones  in  payment  for  his  dinner  at  ditto — is  refused 
admittance,  vol.  i.,  p.  410. 

Nicholls,  Mr.  John  :  a  great  Parliament  man,  but  thought  to  be  very  tart  and 
sour  by  Mrs.  Deborah  Wigmore,  Mr.  Wright's  housekeeper,  vol.  i.,  p.  553. 

Norfolk-,  Duke  of  :  his  speech  at  the  Crown  and  Anchor,  vol.  i.,  pp.  412,  418 — his 
dismissal,  vol.  i.,  p.  429— observations  on  his  toast,  by  a  Freemason,  vol.  i, 
p.  587 — defended  by  a  Symposiast,  vol.  i ,  p.  589— curious  account  of  his  dis- 
missal from  the  French  Papers,  vol.  i.,  p.  614 ;  vol.  ii.,  p.  16. 

0. 

Ode  to  Anarchy,  by  a  Jacobin,  vol.  i.,  p.  301. 

Ode  to  Lord  Moira,  vol.  i.,  p.  380. 

Ode,  a  bit  of  an,  to  Mr.  Fox,  vol.  i.,  p.  422. 

Ode  to  Jacobinism,  vol.  ii.,  p.  53. 

Ode  to  my  Country,  1798,  vol.  ii.,  p.  342. 

Ode  to  the  Director  Merlin,  vol.  u.,  p.  388. 

Ode  to  a  Jacobin,  vol.  ii.,  p.  576. 

Origin  and  Progress  of  the  French  Revolution,  vol.  i.,  p.  22. 

P. 

Pavia,  Treaty  of,  proved  to  be  a  Jacobin  forgery,  vol.  i.,  p.  474. 

Pert  du  Chine,  appellation  of  :  why  given  to  the  editor  of  The  doming  Chronicle, 

vol.  ii.,  p.  471. 

Pilnitz,  Treaty  of,  proved  to  be  a  Jacobin  forgery,  vol.  ii.,  p.  37. 
Poetry,  vol.  i.,  pp.  31, 69,  103, 168,  199,  236,  263,  301,  329,  371,  421,  452,  486,  524, 556, 

597,  620  ;  vol.  ii.,  pp.  21,  53,  95, 133, 1(i2, 200, 236,  274,  312,  33H,  3S7,  415,  446,  197, 

528,  576,  603. 

Porcupine,  Peter,  a  spirited  and  instructive  writer,  vol.  i.,  p.  332. 
Prisoners  of  War,  vol.  i.,  pp.  234,  277,  326 ;  vol.  ii.,  p.  310. 
Prize  of  Dullness,  vol.  i.,  pp.  421,  448,  522  ;  awarded,  vol.  i.,  p.  552. 
Progress  of  Man,  a  Didactic  Poem,  vol.  i.,  pp.  524,  558  ;  vol.  ii.,  p.  97. 
Proceedings  of  the  Whig  Club.  vol.  ii..  p.  260. 
Prologue  to  the  Rovers  ;  or,  the  Double  Arrangement,  vol.  ii.,  p.  420. 

E. 

Ram — see  Sir  John  Sinclair. 

Review  of  the  proposed  plan  of  Finance,  vol.  i.,  p.  143. 

i >f  the  Session,  vol.  ii.,  p.  683. 

Rover*,  the ;  or,  the  Double  Arrangement,  vol.  ii.,  pp.  420,  446. 
Russell,  Lord  John,  makes  a  very  neat  Speech,  vol.  i.,  p.  126. 
Russell,  Lord  William,  makes  vi  very  appropriate  Speech,  vol.  i.,  p.  126. 


330  POETEY   OF   THE   ANTI-JACOBIN INDEX. 

s- 

Sale  of  the  Land  Tax,  vol.  ii.,  p.  1,  269. 

Secession  of  the  Opposition,  observations  on,  vol.  i.,  p.  36. 

Secret  Expedition  of  British  Savant,  vol.  ii.,  p.  529. 

Sinclair,  Sir  John,  embarks  with  his  Ram  in  the  Capricorn  on  a  secret  expedi- 
tion, vol.  ii.,  p.  532. 

Soldier's  Friend :  an  Ode,  vol.  i.,  p.  169. 

Song :  a  new  one,  appointed  to  be  sung  at  all  Convivial  Meetings  convened  for 
the  purpose  of  opposing  the  Assessed  Tax  Bill,  vol.  i.,  p.  303. 

Sonnet  to  Liberty,  vol.  i.,  p.  169. 

Sourby,  Letitia :  her  letter,  vol.  i.,  p.  195. 

Speculator :  his  observations  on  Cardinal  Antici's  letter  to  Buonaparte,  vol.  i., 
p.  586. 

Symposiasfs,  A,  defence  of  the  Duke  of  Norfolk's  celebrated  toast,  vol.  i.,  p.  589. 

T. 

Tate,  Colonel :  his  instructions,  vol.  i.,  pp.  480,  498. 

Tooke,  Home  :  his  speech  at  the  Crown  and  Anchor,  vol.  i.,  p.  417. 

Translation  of  the  Latin  verses  written  after  the  Revolution  of  the  fourth  of 

September,  vol.  i.,  p.  201. 

Translation  of  the  new  song  of  the  "  Army  of  England,"  vol.  i.,  p.  331. 
Translation  of  a  letter  from  Bawba-dara-adul-phoola  to  Neek-awl-aretchid-kooez, 

vol.  ii.,  p.  532. 

Treaty  of  Pavia,  proved  to  be  a  Jacobin  forgery,  vol.  i.,  p.  474. 
Treaty  of  Pilnitz,  proved  to  be  a  Jacobin  forgery,  vol.  ii.,  p.  37. 

u. 

Unattached  Officers,  vol.  i.,  p.  3(52. 

Unjust  Aggressions,  vol.  i.,  pp.  420,  440,  549 ;  vol.  ii.,  pp.  522,  600. 

Union  Star :  extracts  from,  vol.  i.,  p.  352. 

V. 

Verses,  Latin,  written  after  the  Revolution  of  the  fourth  of  September,  vol.  i.,  p. 

201 ;  translation,  vol.  i.,  p.  236. 

Vision,  The  :  written  at  St.  Ann's  Hill,  vol.  i.,  p.  598. 
Voluntary  Contributions,  vol.  i.,  pp.  465,  534. 

w. 

Weekly  Examiner,  vol.  i.,  pp.  19,  46,  115,  156,  178,  217,  248,  293,  322,  346,  395,  435, 

468,  498,  534,  573,  607  ;  vol.  ii.,  pp.  4,  43,  78,  116, 151, 191,  227, 263,  296,  330,  377, 

405,  440,  475,  512,  596. 
Wickham,  Mr. :  his  note  to  the  Helvetic  Body  on  his  recal,  vol.  i.,  p.  388— answer 

to  ditto,  vol.  i.,  p.  426. 
Wigmore!  Deborah,  housekeeper  to  Mr.  Wright,  awards  the  Prize  of  Dullness, 

vol.  i.,  p.  552. 


INDEX    TO    VOL.    I. 

OF    THE 

ANTI-JACOBIN  REVIEW  AND  MAGAZINE. 


[This  Index  and  the  two  preceding  articles  (by  W.  Cobbett,  pp.  311-319) 
are  reprinted  in  order  to  show  that  the  same  spirit  which  pervaded  The  Anti- 
Jacobin  was  continued  in  its  successor,  The  Anti-Jocobin  Review  and  Magazine, 
although  the  Editor  and  Contributors  were  different.] 


Alfred— Letters  of  Ghost  of,  reviewed, 
No.  1,  p.  62  ;  object  of,  63  ;  opinion 
concerning  Erskine  ;  ditto,  concern- 
ing the  acquittals,  1794 ;  Letters, 
Monthly  Review  of,  reviewed,  68. 

Algernon  Sidney,  an  enthusiast  in  Re- 
publicanism, 451  ;  illegally  con- 
demned, 452. 

Almanack  of  revolutions,  789  ;  illus- 
trates the  wild  system  of  innovation, 
i6. ;  account  of  Switzerland,  792. 

America,  4  ;  infected  by  French  princi- 
ples ;  Congress  of,  democratic  mem- 
bers abuse  our  sovereign,  14  ;  build- 
ings described,  222. 

American  Annual  Register,  829 ;  com- 
posed by  Calender,  a  refugee  Scotch 
democrat ;  assertions,  false  ;  reason- 
ing, trivial ;  language  and  manner, 
coarse  and  vulgar,  830 ;  author  tries 
to  be  witty  on  Burke,  833  ;  praises 
Jefferson,  Tom  Paine,  and  the  French 
Revolutionists,  ib. 

Analytical  Review  analysed,  3  ;  Re- 
view of  Wakefleld's  reply,  reviewed, 
75  ;  idea  of  the  constituents  of  inde- 
pendence, 76  ;  consistently  with  itself 
ridicules  prayer,  77  ;  Analytical  Re- 
viewers, not  critics,  but  partisans,  83  ; 
endeavour  to  influence  juries,  84  ; 
enraged  for  the  prosecution  of  John- 
son, 85  ;  give  no  account  of  the  books 
they  censure,  86 ;  Analytical  Re- 
viewer of  Godwin's  Memoirs,  illus- 
trates his  own  morals,  politics,  and 
religion,  99 ;  expects  a  time  when 
Mrs.  Wollstonecraft's  conduct  will  be 
admired,  '•.  ;  asserts  the  proceedings 
of  the  French  Directory  and  English 


Government  to  be  the  same,  182  ; 
abuses  due  laws  and  government, 
ib.  ;  declamatory  abuse  of  Mr.  Gif- 
ford's  address,  185  ;  whom  the  Analy- 
tical think  the  friends  of  liberty,  186  ; 
praises  Charlotte  Smith's  Delmont, 
190  ;  attacks  Murphy's  Arntinivs,  193  ; 
Abuses  Howdler's  Reform  of  Ruin, 195  ; 
Invective  of,  against  Peter  Porcupine, 
ib. ;  tries  wit,  197  ;  blasphemous  com- 
parison by,  of  Godwin,  to  the  Su- 
preme Being,  335  ;  God  of,  not  the 
God  of  Christians,  ib. ;  abuses  Peter 
Porcupine,  342 ;  principles  of,  344 ; 
praises  of  Jones,  the  itinerant  lec- 
turer, 345  ;  Gerald,  ib. ;  enraged  at 
an  allusion  to  the  French  faction  at 
home,  448 ;  abuses  Mr.  Noble  for 
praising  the  gospel,  and  censuring 
the  English  regicides,  449 ;  exclaims 
against  the  punishment  of  regicides, 
450  ;  defends  Ludlow,  the  murderer  of 
his  king,  451 ;  styles  a  conspirator  the 
fairest  character  in  English  history, 
452 ;  defends  the  United  Irishmen, 
464  ;  abuses  Mr.  Budworth,  for  prais- 
ing the  answerer  of  Paine,  465. 

Anarchists,  ode  to.  365. 

Anecdotes  of  Republican  judges,  15  ; 
political,  212. 

Annual  Register,  New,  principles  of, 
150  ;  patronised  by  H.  M.  Williams, 
ib.  ;  conducted  by  a  dignitary  of  the 
Church,  hostile  to  our  established 
institution,  348 ;  anecdote  of  that 
conductor,  349  ;  praise  of  Oldfield's 
Defence  of  Univertal  S\{tfrape,  456 ; 
high  praise  of  Erskine  on  the  War, 
C97  ;  exposed,  698  ;  character  of,  il>.  ; 
remarks  on,  700. 

Anti-Gallican  Spirit  commended,  107. 


332 


POETBY   OF    THE   ANTI- JACOBIN. 


Anti-Jacobin  newspaper  praised,  55. 

Anti-Jacobin  Review,  reason  of  adopting 
that  title,  1 ;  plan  ojf,  3 ;  proposes  to 
counteract  Jacobinical  criticism,  5  ; 
preface  of,  to  reviewers  reviewed,  55  ; 
object,  56 ;  observations  of,  on  the 
constitution,  60 ;  prophesies  the  de- 
struction of  the  French  fleet  by  Nel- 
son, 123  ;  opinion  of,  on  obedience  to 
constituted  authorities,  61 ;  opinion 
of  duelling,  153  ;  declaration  of  politi- 
cal principles,  166  ;  discusses  Locke's 
Opinions  on  Government,  167  ;  explains 
the  duty  of  obedience,  169 ;  defines 
the  constitution  to  be  what  is  actually 
constituted,  170  ;  opinion  of,  on  pulpit 
politics,  304  ;  political  creed  of,  314  ; 
illustrated  and  enforced,  ib. ;  states 
the  reciprocal  duties  of  sovereign  and 
subject,  ib.  ;  principles  of,  315  ;  ex- 
poses the  Anti-Christian  doctrines 
of  the  Monthly  Reviewers,  316  ;  can- 
vasses the  opinions  of  Dr.  Geddes, 
318 ;  character  of  La  Fayette,  345 ; 
declares  the  Letter  to  the.  Church  of 
England  the  text  book  of  its  princi- 
ples, 402  ;  recommends  to  the  Bishops 
to  suppress  schism  among  the  esta- 
blished clergy,  ib.  ;  admonishes  Mr. 
Wansey,  on  his  insolent  and  foolish 
letter  to  the  Bishop  of  Salisbury,  415  ; 
admonishes  fathers  of  families  to 
discountenance  Jacobinical  writings, 
434  ;  proves  the  authenticity  of  Scrip- 
tures against  Socinians  and  Deists, 
439 ;  abused  by  the  Literary  Census, 
667 ;  reason  of  the  abuse,  its  support 
of  the  Constitution,  ib. 

Aristotle,  Gillies's  translation  of,  re- 
viewed, 253  ;  fate  of  his  writings,  255  ; 
life  of,  257  ;  analysis  of  his  speculative 
works,  258  ;  error  of  these  works,  ib.  ; 
organon,  261 ;  misunderstood  by  the 
school-men,  ib. ;  his  zoology,  the 
most  perfect  of  his  works,  387  ;  saga- 
cious discoveries  and  comprehensive 
knowledge,  ib.  •  searches  too  much 
for  efficient  causes,  389 ;  ethics  and 
politics,  part  of  the  same  general 
system,  390 ;  analysis  of  happiness, 
virtue,  and  habit,  391 ;  application  of 
principles,  392  ;  jurisprudence,  393  ; 
social  affection,  394  ;  importance  of 
his  work  at  present,  395  ;  inculcates 
the  necessity  of  subordination,  396  ; 
anticipates  Adam  Smith,  397  ;  demon- 
strates the  absurdity  of  the  levelling 
system,  ib.  ;  the  folly  of  hasty  inno- 
vations, ib.  See  Gillies.  His  opinions 
on  commerce,  513 ;  honoured  agri- 
culture more  than  trade,  516  ;  had  he 
lived  in  Britain,  might  have  thought 


differently,  ib. ;  the  SAGE  THINKS 

THE    FUNCTIONS    OF    RELIGION    THE 

FIKST  IN  DIGNITY,  ib.  ;  doctrines  on 
education  little  more  than  copied  by 
succeeding  writers,  517 ;  tests  of 
good  government,  518 ;  refutes  the 
absurd  opinion  that  all  men  are  fitted 
to  govern,  519  ;  sentiments  on  dema- 
gogues and  faction,  ib. ;  illustrated 
in  the  Corresponding  Societies  and 
Whig  Club,  520  ;  admirable  book  on 
sedition  and  revolutions,  ib.  ;  ad- 
dresses the  WILL,  as  well  as  the 

UNDERSTANDING,  523. 

Associations,  legal,  praised,  137  ;  ad- 
dress to.  See  Gifford.  Exhortation 
to,  210. 

B. 

Barras'  motion,  concerning,  and  cause, 
144. 

Barristers,  Irish,  encroach  on  the  office 
of  the  Judge,  by  laying  down  the  law, 
540 ;  inaccurate,  ib. 

Bedford,  Duke  of,  contributions  to  the 
State,  20. 

Bisset,  Dr.,  reply  of,  to  a  letter  in  the 
Monthly  Review,  588 ;  charges  the 
Priestleyan  dissenters  with  a  design 
to  subvert  our  establishment,  590  ; 
quotes  Priestley's  declaration  to  that 
effect,  ib.  ;  reprobates  the  metaphysi- 
cal politics  of  Priestley's  First  Prin- 
ciples of  Government ;  and  Price,  on 
Civil  Liberty,  ib.  ;  vindicates  Burke, 
for  opposing  the  repeal  of  the  Test 
Act,  591 ;  his  anonymous  antagonist, 
supposed  to  be  Anthony  Robinson, 
linen  draper,  dissenting  preacher,  and 
debating  society  orator,  ib. 

Blasphemy,  punishment  of,  according 
to  Burn.  See  Geddes. 

Boaden's  Cambro  Britons,  reviewed, 
415  ;  just  description  of  invaders  and 
invaded,  416 ;  ranting  phraseology, 
ib.  ;  farcical  strainings  after  humour, 
ib.  ;  admonished  to  discontinue  writ- 
ing as  soon  as  a  relish  for  works  of 
genius  shall  again  prevail,  417. 

Boffe,  De,  publications  of,  845. 

Bond,  Oliver,  testimony  of,  300. 

Book  clubs,  either  through  ignorance 
or  design,  circulate  hurtful  writings, 
475 ;  account  of  one  at  Maidstone, 
ib.  ;  proposed  regulations  for  render- 
ing them  useful,  ib.  ;  praised  by  the 
Monthly  Magazine,  476  ;  the  praise  of 
that  performance  renders  them  sus- 
picious, ib. 

Bowles,  the  champion  of  the  British 


INDEX    TO   THE    ANTMACOBIN-REV1BW. 


333 


Constitution,  reprobated  by  the  Criti- 
cal Review,  678. 

Brissot,  avowed  design  to  abolish 
monarchy,  27  ;  conformity  of  French 
conduct  to  his  declaration,  ib.  ; 
memorable  report  of,  512. 

British  Critic  praised,  343 ;  abused  by 
the  Literary  Census,  because  hostile  to 
atheists  and  levellers,  667. 

Brothers's  Letters  to  Miss  Cott,  a  fel- 
low lunatic,  568. 

British    public   characters,   reviewed, 

634  ;  arrogant  dedication  to  the  King, 

635  ;   strange  assortment  of  charac- 
ters, ib. ;  imperfect  and  trifling  exe- 
cution, Hi. ;   bungling  daub  ot  Mr. 
Fox,  636  ;  sketch  of  Mr.  Pitt  less  im- 
perfect, but  very  inadequate  to  the 
original,  ib. 

Buonaparte,  entirely  differs  from  the 
great  CondtS,  32  ;  expedition  of,  123  ; 
denies  the  existence  of  Christ,  372  ; 
proclaims  his  veneration  for  Maho- 
met, ib.;  original  letters  from  him 
and  army,  647  ;  object  of  his  expedi- 
tion, ib.;  legislative  talents  of,  649; 
campaign  of,  in  Italy,  770. 

c. 

Cambridge  Intelligencer  abuses  the 
most  respectable  characters  in  Ire- 
land, 130. 

Camille  Jordan,  address  from,  re- 
viewed, 180  ;  unjustly  treated  by  the 
Analytical,  481.  See  Gifford. 

Catholics,  Irish,  Grattan's  intrigue 
with,  39 ;  Catholic  emancipation  a 
mere  pretext,  293. 

Catiline  liberality  and  moderation, 
cant  terms  of,  443. 

Cato,  of  Utica,  spee_ch  against  con- 
spirators who  invited  the  Gallic 
nation  to  invade  their  country,  441. 

Census,  Literary,  reviewed,  666  ;  abuses 
works  and  characters  friendly  to  the 
constitution,  667 ;  reviles  Messrs. 
Pitt,  Burke,  Dundas,  and  Lawrence, 
ib.;  praises  Paine,  Sheridan,  and  Fox, 
ib.;  reprobates  the  Anti-Jacobin 
Reviewers  for  defending  order, 
morals,  religion,  and  the  British 
constitution,  ib. 

Chatham,  Earl,  conduct,  character, 
measures,  and  success  of,  576 ;  con- 
trasted with  those  of  Lord  Holland, 
ib. 

Christian  ministers  vindicated,  429 ; 
religion  vilified  by  impious  and  I 
obscene  publications,  435  ;  the  firmest 
basis  of  every  virtue,  ib.;  professors  , 
of,  adjured  to  discourage  Jacobinism, 


ib.;  writings  in  vain  plead  to  Jaco- 
binical Reviewers,  437. 

Clare.  Chancellor,  speech  of,  461 ;  wise 
and  able,  462. 

Clary's  Jounw.l  oj'  Louis  X  VI. ,  42  ;  ani- 
mated and  interesting, 43  ;  Lamballe's 
head  carried  about,  44. 

Cobbett,  efforts  of,  in  America,  7.  See 
Peter  Porcupine. 

Committee,  Secret.  See  Ireland  and 
Irish. 

Connor's,  O',  State  of  Ireland,  examined, 
463 ;  address,  ditto,  ib.  ;  copious 
extracts  from,  by  the  Analytical 
Reviewers,  464  ;  defends  the  United 
Jrigltmen,  ib.;  testimony  at  Maid- 
stone,  290. 

Considerations  on  Public  Affairs,  re- 
viewed, 25  ;  author  of,  anti-Gallican, 
not  anti-Jacobin,  32 ;  ditto,  263 ; 
erroneously  considers  our  contest  as 
with  the  physical  force  of  France 
only,  264  ;  proposes  merely  a  defen- 
sive war,  265  ;  dangerous  tendency  of 
certain  positions,  266  ;  affected  imita- 
tion of  Burke,  267  ;  inaccuracy  of 
language,  268. 

Conspiracy  against  Social  Order,  with 
the  part  taken  by  the  Jacobinical 
Reviews,  591. 

Constitution,  British,  its  principles 
illustrated,  468  ;  antiquity,  nature, 
and  excellence,  ib.;  history  and 
principle,  epochs,  469;  Mr.  Reeve's 
assertion  respecting,  470  ;  the  Duke 
of  Norfolk's,  ditto,  ib.;  Reeve's 
principle  discussed  and  defended 
from  English  history,  471  ;  ditto, 
from  Lord  Coke,  472. 

Contributions,  voluntary,  praised,  135 ; 
ridiculed  by  Unitarian  dissenters, 
136  ;  Quakers',  pretence  of  scruples 
of  conscience  shown  from  their  own 
conduct  to  be  unfounded,  ib.;  proof 
of  loyalty  to  the  king,  and  attach- 
ment to  the  country,  140. 

Cornwallis,  praises  the  proceedings  of 
his  predecessors,  490  ;  speech  of,  491  ; 
praises  the  regulars  and  militia,  /'-. 

Courier,  abuses  the  friends  of  Govern- 
ment, 158 ;  conduct  of,  respecting 
France,  considered,  203  ;  justifies  the 
proceedings  of  France,  extols  her 
resources,  and  abuses  England,  204  ; 
patronised  by  Lord  Moira.  205 ;  ac- 
count of  the  Report  of  the  Secret 
Committee,  247  ;  endeavours  to  re- 
vive the  spirits  of  Jacobins,  486 ;  a 
disgrace  to  the  English  press,  376 ; 
justifies  every  enormity  of  the 
French,  ib.;  threatens  to  prosecute 
the  Anti-Jacobin,  ib. 


334 


POETKY   OF   THE   ANTI-JACOBIN. 


Critical  Review  of  Wake/teld's  Reply,  re- 
viewed, 73 ;  praises  Waketield,  75  ; 
supports  Kingsbury's  address  to  Dr. 
Watson,  78 ;  inveighs  against  the 
Bishop,  79 ;  remarks  of,  resemble 
those  of  the  French  regicides,  81 ; 
great  praise  of  Edmund  Oliver,  179  ; 
commends  those  parts  of  Monboddo's 
Metaphysics  which  ascribe  pre- 
eminent evil  to  England.  667. 


D. 

David,  a  painter,  gives  the  Deity  the 
face  of  Robespierre,  22. 

Democracy,  apostrophe  to,  35. 

Dencent  Priory,  a  novel,  frivolous  and 
extravagant,  417. 

Directory,  French,  account  of,  8  ;  wish 
to  suppress  Clary's  narrative,  51 ;  ar- 
rogance of,  122  ;  policy  of,  respecting 
foreign  powers,  124  ;  motives  of,  for 
proscribing  the  moderate  members, 
143  ;  arts  of,  493 ;  tyranny  of,  494  ; 
tries  to  excite  dissension  in  foreign 
states,  ib.  See  France  and  History. 
Falsehood,  injustice,  and  violence  of. 
to  Switzerland,  505.  See  Underwald 
and  French. 

Dissenters,  political  conduct  of,  626  ; 
active  members  of  the  Corresponding 
Society,  631 ;  Hardy,  the  shoemaker, 
one  of  their  number,  ib. ;  a  preacher 
of  the  tribe  appeared  to  his  character, 
ib.;  chief  supporters  of  Thel  wall's 
lectures,  ib. ;  Paine,  once  a  dissenting 
preacher,  632  :  Godwin,  a  dissenting 
minister,  ib.;  Gilbert  Wakefleld, 
ditto ;  conductors  of  the  Monthly, 
Analytical,  and  Critical,  ditto,  ib.; 
conductors  of  the  Chronicle  and 
Courier,  ditto  ;  abstain  from  volun- 
tary contributions,  ib. ;  fast  increas- 
ing, 633  ;  the  designs  of  their  chief 
apostles  discussed  and  exposed  by 
Dr.  Bisset,  590. 

Dissenters,  Irish,  declared,  by  Dr. 
Jackson  to  be  determined  Republi- 
cans, and  friends  of  the  French 
Revolution,  294. 

Dublin,  instructions  to  citizens  of,  by 
Grattan,  38. 

Duigenan's  answer  to  Grattan,  ib. 

E. 

Economists  propagate  principles  in- 
consistent with  the  well-being  of 
society,  4. 

Ego,  Counsellor,  soliloquy,  355. 


Emigrant,  a  novel,  appendix,  741  ; 
moral,  political,  and  religious  ten- 
dency of,  742  ;  gross  and  licentious 
sentiments  of,  743  ;  supposes  the 
public  law  of  Europe  mouldering 
into  ruins,  744  ;  proposes  the  destruc- 
tion of  history  to  be  replaced  by 
romance,  745  ;  a  vehicle  of  revolu- 
tionary doctrines,  746. 

Emmet's  evidence  before  the  Secret 
Committee,  299. 

Erskine,  supposed  author  of  the  St- 
cesiion  from  Parliament,  19 ;  his 
egotism  disgusting,  20  ;  his  testimony 
at  Maidstone,  28  ;  speech  of,  at  the 
Whig  Club,  discussed,  526 ;  advances 
a  position  contrary  to  reason  and 
truth,  ib.;  copies  the  language  and 
rant  of  Kingsbury,  the  dissenting 
minister  and  razor-maker,  ib.;  his 
allegations  sanctioned  by  the 
authority  of  John  Ball,  Wat  Tyler, 
and  John  Cade,  527. 


F. 

Fantoccini,  political,  364. 

La  Fayette,  praised  by  the  Analytical 
Review,  345. 

Fitzgerald,  Lord  Edward,  transcribes 
the  resolutions  of  National  Commit- 
tee, 293  ;  innocence  defended  by  the 
Morning  Chronicle,  379. 

Fox,  secession  of,  discussed,  17 ;  duty 
as  a  member  of  Parliament,  18  ;  con- 
duct of,  19  ;  proposed  plan  of  ministry 
under,  20 ;  resentment  of,  for  the 
dismissal  of  the  Duke  of  Norfolk,  90  ; 
observation  of,  in  the  Whig  Club, 
concerning  associations,  138 ;  testi- 
mony at  Maidstone,  285  ;  promulgates 
his  political  creed  at  a  tavern,  487  ; 
adopts  Gilbert  Wakefield's  opinions, 
488;  sentiments  of,  respecting  Ireland, 
ib. ;  thinks  the  punishments  of  traitors 
cruelty,  ib. ;  defence  of  Lord  Edward 
Fitzgerald,  ib.;  insult  to  his  consti- 
tuents, 489  ;  libel  on  parliaments,  ib. ; 
abuse  of  anticipated  taxes,  490 ;  letter 
to,  530 ;  attachment  of,  to  the  accused, 
and  convicted  of  sedition  and  treason, 
531  ;  reprobated,  ib.;  conduct  at 
Maidstone,  considered,  532 ;  con- 
trasted with  Pitt.  See  Pitt. 

France,  regicides  of,  find  advocates  in 
pur  metropolis,  2 ;  principles  and 
intrigues  of,  4  ;  not  physical  force  of, 
formidable,  but  moral,  25 ;  between 
monarchy  and  republic  of,  difference, 
of  contest,  30  ;  state  of,  Jacobinical, 
capital  of,  33  ;  internal  state  of,  122. 


INDEX    TO   THE    ANTI-JACOBIN  REVIEW. 


335 


Fraunces,  an  American  Jacobin,  843  ; 
lends  his  wife,  ib.;  extorts  money 
from  a  dupe  on  account  of  the  loan, 
ib.;  conduct  of,  illustrates  Jacobin 
morality,  844. 

French,  a  nation  of  plundering  ban- 
ditti, 124 ;  philosophers  of,  445 ; 
Republic,  conduct  of,  to  the  Vene- 
tians, 460  ;  to  the  United  Provinces, 
ib.;  to  the  Germans,  4(51 ,  now  the 
time  to  crush,  495.  See  Directory  and 
History,  army,  proceedings  of,  at 
Berne,  508. 

Friends  of  the  People,  recommend  Old- 
field's  Defence  of  Universal  suffrage, 
456. 

G. 

Oeddes.  Dr.,  chiefly  known  as  an 
arraigner  of  the  Scriptures,  694. 

Gerald,  Joseph,  praised  by  the  Aiwly- 
ticnl,  346. 

Geroldiiia,  a  novel,  reviewed,  668 ; 
ignorance,  frivolity,  and  folly  of,  600. 

Gifford,  John,  preface  to,  set  Jordan's 
Address,  180 ;  a  zealous  and  able 
champion  of  our  laws,  religion,  and 
morals,  181 ;  abused  by  the  Jacobins, 
('-.;  address  from,  to  the  loyal  as- 
sociations, 183  ;  list  of  Directory  for 
England,  Scotland,  and  Ireland,  184  ; 
salutary  tendency,  and  ability  of 
execution,  185  ;  Second  Letter  of,  to 
Mr.  Erskine,  review  of,  reviewed, 
678 ;  as  a  champion  of  the  constitu- 
tion, he,  according  to  the  Critical 
Reviewers,  deserves  no  quarter,  ib. ; 
attacks  the  legal  champion  of  opposi- 
tion, surrounded  by  his  army  of 
tropes  and  figures,  misrepresenta- 
tions, egotism,  and  anachronism,  ib. ; 
exposes  Mr.  Erskine's  falsifications 
of  dates,  679  ;  illustrates  the  wrong 
conclusions  in  which  the  lawyer 
abounds,  680  :  proves  the  proceedings 
of  seditious  societies  and  demagogues 
to  have  been  the  causes  of  the  pro- 
clamation, 1792;  forcible  extracts 
from,  681 ;  refers  Mr.  Erskine  to  the 
Report  of  the  Irish  Committee,  ib. 

Godwin,  edits  the  Posthumous  Works 
of  his  wife,  91  ;  inculcates  the  pro- 
miscuous intercourse  of  the  sexes, 
U>.;  reprobates  marriage,  93 :  con- 
siders Mary  Godwin  as  a  model  for 
female  imitation,  94  •  certifies  his 
wife's  constitution  to  have  been 
amorous,  96 ;  memoirs  of  her,  ib.; 
account  of  his  wife's  adventures  as  a 
kept  mistress,  97 ;  celebrates  her 
happiness  while  the  concubine  of 


I  inlay,  ib.;  informs  the  public  that 
she  was  concubine  to  himself  before 
she  was  his  wife,  98 ;  declares  no 
person  in  his  right  senses  will 
frequent  places  of  public  worship, 
U>.;  morals  examined,  331  ;  if  his 
principle  be  granted,  his  deduction 
not  absurd,  332 ;  his  principle  re- 
futed, 333  ;  praised  by  the  Analytical, 
335 ;  compared  to  the  Supreme 
Being,  ib. 

Government  can  only  perish  by  suicide, 
9.  See  Constitution,  Directory. 

Grattan,  answer  to,  37  ;  character  and 
projects  of,  38  ;  arguments  for 
Catholic  emancipation,  40 ;  evidence 
concerning,  298. 


Hamilton,  on  the  United  States,  841 ; 
an  abje  and  staunch  advocate  for  the 
American  government,  ib.;  hostile  to 
France,  ib. ;  persecutions  by  Jacobins, 
842. 

Harper,  Goodloe,  speech  of,  reviewed, 
421  ;  divides  revolutionists  into 
philosophers,  Jacobins,  and  Sans- 
Culottes,  422 ;  account  of  the  arti- 
fices of  French  agents,  423. 

Hedgehog,  Humphrey,  abused  by  the 
Jacobinical  Reviewers,  343  ;  causes 
of  their  abuse,  344. 

Henshal],  strictures  of,  on  the  Duke 
of  Leinster's  and  Mr.  Sheridan's 
motions,  300;  character  of,  310; 
treatise  on  the  Saxon  and  English 
languages,  381 ;  proposes  the  most 
effectual  means  of  explaining  Anglo- 
Saxon  words,  382  ;  proves  the  Saxon 
language  the  spring  of  pure  English, 
384 ;  marks  the  changes  of  the 
English  language,  ib.;  critique  on 
the  Dieersions  cfPurley,  385  ;  general 
character  of,  386 ;  strictures  of,  on 
the  Gentleman's  Magazine  and  Analy- 
tical Review,  579 ;  vindicates  his 
Treatixe  on  Saxon  Literature,  580. 

History  of  politics,  foreign  and  domes- 
tic, 119;  general  view  of  affairs  in 
America  and  Europe,  •  •'•. ;  congress  at 
Rastadt,  120  ;  Mr.  D'Arnim's  Answer 
to  the  King  of  Prussia,  121 ;  disci- 
pline and  courage  of  British  seamen, 
123 ;  reflections,  125 ;  domestic- 
affairs,  127  ;  origin  and  progress  of 
the  Irish  rebellion,  il>.;  religion,  a 
mere  pretence,  128 ;  real  cause, 
Jacobin  conspiracy,  ib.;  objects  of 
the  rebellion,  separation  from 
Britain,  129  ;  friends  of  Government 


336 


POETKY   OF   THE   ANTI-JACOBIN. 


abused  by  the  Jacobin  prints,  130 ;  an 
awful  crisis,  240 ;  congress  at  Ras 
tadt,  ib. ;  general  confederacy  recom 
mended,  241 ;  consequences  of  the 
late  King  of  Prussia  s  conduct,  ib.; 
Russia,  ib.;  Naples,  ib.;  despotic 
power  of  the  Directory,  243 ;  France 
boasts  of  her  virtue,  ib.;  wretched 
state  of  French  finance,  245  ;  indeci- 
sion of  the  Emperor,  368  ;  spirit  and 
vigour  of  Russia  and  Turkey,  ib.; 
inactivity  of  Prussia,  ib.;  conduct  of 
the  French  at  Milan,  370 ;  anarchy 
of  the  Cisalpine  Republic,  ib. ;  objects 
of  the  revolutions  from  French 
politics,  and  French  power,  ib. ; 
French,  try  to  exclude  British 
manufactures  from  the  Continent, 
374;  in  vain,  ib.;  Nelson's  victory, 
483  ;  immediate  effects  of,  484  ;  ac- 
cession of  ships  to  Britain,  ib.; 
Nelson's  victory  prevents  revival  of 
rebellion  in  Ireland,  485  ;  effects  of 
Nelson's  victory,  605  ;  proceedings  at 
Rastadt,  ib.;  march  of  the  Russian 
army,  607  ;  internal  state  of  France, 
608 ;  Erskine's  speech  at  the  Whig 
Club,  609 ;  plan  of  finance,  610 ; 
resolutions  of  merchants  and  bankers, 
ib.;  conduct  of  opposition,  611 ; 
political  state  of  Europe,  734  ;  French 
declare  war  against  Naples  and 
Sardinia,  737 ;  views  of  the  French 
government,  738. 

Hoche,  General,  differs  from  Turenne, 
32  ;  life  of,  dedicated  to  the  eternal 
Republic,  by  Rousselin,  754  ;  birth 
and  parentage  of,  755  ;  his  father  a 
dog-Keeper,  himself  a  groom,  ib. ; 
learns  philosophy  from  Rousseau  and 
French  novels,  ib. :  enters  the  army, 
756  ;  a  corporal,  ib. ;  a  commander-in- 
chief,  75S  ;  compared  to  Neptune,  ib.; 
put  in  prison,  759 ;  released,  760 ; 
conquers  La  Vende'e,  761 ;  proposes 
to  invade  England,  762  ;  seized  with 
a  disorder  in  his  bowels,  767  ;  death 
and  character  of,  768. 

Holcroft's  Knave  or  Not,  reviewed,  51 ; 
literary  character  of  Holcroft,  52 ; 
novels,  id.;  object  of  them,  and  his 
play  the  same,  viz.,  to  overturn  our 
constitution  and  level  rank  and  pro- 
perty, 53 ;  execution  feeble,  ib. ;  an 
inaccurate  observer  and  superficial 
reasoner,  54 ;  though  trifling,  calcu- 
lated to  do  much  mischief,  ib. ; 
admonished  of  the  inadequacy  of  his 
powers  and  knowledge,  ib.  See 
Jacobinism,  Revolution,  &c. 

Holland,  Lord,  contrasted  with  Lord 
Chatham,  576. 


Horsley's,  Dr.— able  defence  of  the 
Church,  554 ;  masterly  observation 
on  the  political  principles  of  Calvin, 
627.  See  Bishop  of  Rochester. 

J. 

Jacobin,  a  receipt  for  making  one,  617  : 
half-educate  him,  ib.;  place  him 
under  a  dissenting  schoolmaster,  ib.; 
let  him  read  Dr.  Priestley's  writings, 
ib.;  initiate  him  in  debating  societies, 
ib.;  preach  in  a  conventicle,  ib.; 
write  for  the  Monthly  Magazine  or 
Analytical  Review,  ib.;  read  E_rskine's 
Pamphlet,  ib.  See  Loan  of  wives. 

Jacobin,  faction  exists  in  this  country, 
1 ;  Jacobins  employed  in  the  States 
at  war  with  France,  27  ;  Republic, 
rapacious  spirit  of,  29  ;  capital,  33  ; 
catch  words  of,  76 ;  authors  of  re- 
volutions, 422  ;  principles  of,  adopted 
by  the  Annual  Register,  458;  prints 
and  speeches.  See  Courier,  Chronicle, 
Post,  &c. 

Jacobinism,  daily,  weekly,  monthly 
and  annual  vehicles  of,  2  ;  its  malig- 
nant and  intolerant  spirit,  ib.; 
characterised,  12  ;  rise,  progress,  and 
effects  of,  109  ;  promoted  by  certain 
Reviews,  ib. ;  history  of  (see  Barruel), 
defined,  223;  worse  than  ancient 
democracy,  ib. ;  worse  than  former 
levelling  principles,  224  ;  than  Crom- 
wellianism,  ib.  ;  religious  scepticism 
leads  to,  225  ;  promoted  by  visionary 
metaphysics,  226  ;  promoted  by  Vol- 
taire, D'Alembert,  Diderot,  359,  712  ; 
promoted  by  Mrs.  Macaulay,  713 ; 
by  Price  and  Priestley,  ib. ;  all  dis- 
senters not  equally  favourable  to,  716 ; 
Socinians,  Jacobinical,  real  Presby- 
terians, loyal,  ib. 

Jones,  the  Lecturer,  praised  by  the 
Analytical,  346. 

Ireland  and  Irish,  cro«n  and  govern- 
ment of,  38  ;  rebellion,  causes  of,  158  ; 
system  of  government  respecting, 
374 ;  insurrection,  account  of,  424  ; 
barbarities  of  the  rebels,  425  ;  state 
of,  490 ;  union  with,  recommended, 
491. 

Irishmen,  United,  attempts  of,  to  se- 
duce the  soldiers,  293 ;  connection 
with  the  London  Corresponding 
Society,  299. 

K. 

King,  parent  of  the  constitution,  471 ; 
proved  from  records,  ib. ;  from  the 


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337 


various  parts  and  instruments 
government,  472  ;  opinion  of  Coke  on 
tin's subject,473.  .Sec Constitution am: 
Reeves. 

Kingsbury  answers  the  Bishop  01 
l.:inil;iff ,  78 ;  first  a  dissenting 
minister,  then  a  writer  on  razors, 
ib.;  predicts  the  Irish  traitors  will  be 
successful,  82. 

Knave  or  Not,  a  superficial  but  dan- 
gerous work,  51.  See  Holcroft. 


L. 

Lamballe,  Madame,  her  head  carried 
about  to  display  Jacobin  humanity, 

Lashknave,  Lawrence— account  of  the 
Corresponding  Society,  220 ;  letter 
from,  701. 

Landerdale,  Earl  of,  assertion  of, 
respecting  trade,  refuted,  336  ;  friend- 
ship of,  with  Brissot  and  his  coadju- 
tors, 513. 

Lavater"s  Address  to  tlie  Director'/. 
280 ;  a  mixture  of  adulation  arid 
abuse,  it>. ;  praises  the  French  Re- 
volution, 282 ;  reprobates  the  in- 
vasion of  Switzerland,  ib. 

Lecturers,  Pulpit,  in  London,  often 
methodisticaf  and  ignorant,  399. 

Letter  to  the  Bishop  of  Salisbury,  409  ; 
petulant  insolence  of,  410  ;  elegant 
extracts  from,  ib.;  refined  phraseo- 
logy, 411  ;  abuse  of,  412  ;  scandalous 
insinuation  of,  against  an  eminent 
prelate,  413. 

Letter  to  The  Anti-Jacobin  Review  on 
modern  Catilines,  and  the  evidence 
at  Maid.stone,  593  ;  to  Mr.  Fox,  re- 
viewed, 530  (xee  Fox)  ;  to  the  Bishop 
of  Rochester  from  Mr.  Rhys,  re- 
viewed, 634  ;  position  that  war  is,  in 
all  cases,  unchristian  disproved,  il>.\ 
no  precepts  against  it  delivered  by 
our  Saviour,  535. 

Liberality,  real,  an  excellent  quality, 
440 ;  term  often  misapplied  by  Jaco- 
bins, ib. 

Licentiousness  of  the  press,  1 . 

Lloyd's  Kdmund  Oliver,  declamatory 
abuse  of  the  military  profession,  177  ; 
censures  the  war  with  the  regicides. 
178 ;  proposes  to  level  rank  and 
property,  179 ;  doctrines  praised. 
See  Critical  and  Analytical. 

Loan  of  wives,  a  practice  among  Jaco- 
bins. Sec  Fraunces. 

Louis  XVI.,  Clary's  journal  of  confine- 


IB*    -*    *  A.,     VWKJ    0     I'MU  Il.ll    Ul      <   'Ullllll    - 

inent  and  sufferings  of,  42  ;  persecu- 


tion of,  43  ;  brutal  treatment  of,  45  ; 


audacious  insolence  to,  4C ;  abused 
by  newspapers,  47 ;  exemplary  con- 
duct of,  48 ;  monstrous  trial  of,  49 ; 
execution  of,  50. 

Lovers'    Vow*   reviewed,    479 ;    object, 
tendency,  and  character,  480. 


M. 

Mallet  du  Pan,  British  Mercury  of, 
reviewed,  403 ;  object  of  the  work,  ib.; 
throws  light  on  French  principles,  ib.; 
able  and  useful  advice  in  the  preface, 

404  ;  gratitude  to  the  British  nation, 

405  ;  analysis  and  extracts,  406 ;  ac- 
count of  Swiss  cantons,  407  ;  descrip- 
tion  of  a  Swiss  wedding,  408  ;  account 
of  affairs  in  Italy,  403  ;  account  of 
the  destruction  of  Helvetic  liberty, 
601 ;   character  of   the  French  Re- 
volutionists, 602 ;   effects   on    other 
nations,  503 ;  state  of  resources  of 
Switzerland,  504  ;  character  of  Weiss 
the  French  partisan,  506  ;  conduct  of, 
507  ;  pathetic  description  of  the  last 
efforts  of  Berne,  509 ;  reflections,  511; 
character  of  Buonaparte,  513  ;  British 
Mercury  recommended  to  all  crowned 
heads,  ib.;  general  character  of  the 
work,  515. 

Maria,  or  the  Wrongs  of  Woman,  re- 
viewed, 91 ;  fable,  object,  and 
principles  of,  92;  asserts  that  her 
friend  Jemima's  understanding  was 
sharpened  and  invigorated  by  her 
occupations  as  a  thief  and  a  prosti- 
tute, ib. ;  particular  description  of 
Maria  and  her  lover,  93  ;  restraints 
on  adultery,  according  to  Maria,  a 
flagrant  wrong  to  women,  i&.  See 
Godwin  anil  Wollstonecraft. 

Martinez'  persecution  of  Peter  Porcu- 
pine, 9  ;  proceedings  of,  10. 

Menard,  infamous  pretext  of,  for  in- 
vading Switzerland,  511. 

Meyers,  De,  Fragments  on  Paris,  268  ; 
criterion  of  the  state  of  a  nation,  ib. ; 
dress  and  amusements  at  Paris,  900 ; 
extracts  from,  270 ;  strictures  on, 
271 ;  state  of  the  arts  and  sciences  at 
Paris,  272 ;  his  account  recommended 
to  votaries  of  innovation,  273  ;  charac- 
ter of  his  work,  279. 

Mifflin,  Governor,  republican  morality 
of,  14  ;  celebrates  the  dethronement 
of  Louis  XVI.,  ib.;  praises  the  Botany 
Buy  citizens,  ib. 

Ministry,  proposed  plan  of,  by  Mr. 
Fox,  20. 


22 


Moira,  F>arl  of,  patronises  the  Couriir, 


338 


POETBY   OF   THE    ANTI-JACOBIN. 


204 ;  his  letter  to  Colonel  Mahon 
discussed,  206  ;  censured,  207  ;  un- 
founded account  of  Ireland,  294 ; 
speech  in  the  Irish  Parliament, 
considered,  discussed,  and  censured, 
461. 

Monboddo's  Ancient  Metaphysics,  review 
of,  reviewed,  565.  See  Monthly  and 
Critical  Reviews. 

Monroe's  View  of  the  Conduct  of  the 
Executive,  considered,  824  ;  Monroe, 
of  the  French  faction  in  America, 
825  ;  a  promoter  of  Jacobin  doctrines, 
826. 

Monthly  Magazine  detected,  198 ;  pub- 
lished by  a  French  citizen,  ib.  ; 
patronised  by  the  Directory,  199 ; 
dialogue  from,  327  ;  praises  book 
clubs,  476  (see  R.  Phillips  and  Jacobin 
Prints) ;  detection  of,  570 ;  John 
Thelwall  a  contributor  to,  ib. ;  sneers 
at  loyalty,  572 ;  abuses  Lord  Auck- 
Jand,  ib.;  reviles  Lord  Carlisle,  573; 
inveighs  against  Mallet  du  Pan,  ib.; 
reprobates  Peter  Porcupine,  ih.  ; 
slanders  Mr.  Harper,  ib.;  all  because 
enemies  to  Jacobinism,  ib. 

Monthly  Review,  to  be  reviewed  by  The 
Anti-Jacobin,  3  ;  dangerous  tendency 
of,  56 ;  character  and  operations  of, 
58  ;  unfriendly  to  the  constitution  as 
actually  constituted,  60 ;  review  of, 
68 ;  arts  of,  to  prevent  the  circulation 
of  constitutional  works,  71 ;  reviewed, 
171 ;  fals_e  statement  by,  172  ;  curious 
observation  of,  ib. ;  examined,  173  ; 
false  and  absurd  remark  of,  on 
Switzerland.  174  ;  ignorance  of,  175  ; 
praises  the  Spirit  of  the  Public 
Journals,  331 ;  asserts  Oldfleld's 
Abuse  of  Parliament  to  be  demonstra- 
tion, 453  ;  praises  his  support  of  uni- 
versal suffrage,  456 ;  praises  Lord 
Moira  for  apologising  for  our  officers 
(see  Spirit  of  Public  Journals  and 
Jacobin  Prints) ;  quotes  the  most 
exceptionable  passages  of  Mon- 
boddo's Metaphysics,  567  ;  ridicules 
David  and  Solomon  because  kings 
and  Scripture  characters,  569. 

Moore,  Dr.,  a  friend  of  Brissot,  513. 

Morning  Chronicle  resembles  the  Monthly 
Review,  58 ;  dialogue  from,  320 ;  ac- 
count of  Tierney's  speech,  377 ; 
extracts  from,  378 ;  continues  its 
virulence,  379 ;  invectives  against 
the  saviours  of  Ireland,  497  ;  idea  of 
rebellion,  498.  See  Spirit  of  Public 
Journals  and  Jacobin  Prints. 

Morning  Post,  invectives  of,  against 
ministers,  497.  See  Jacobin  Prints 
and  Spirit  of  Public  Journals. 


N. 

Naples,  loyalty  and  patriotism  of,  493. 
See  History. 

Nelson,  splendid  victory  of,  483 ; 
momentous  consequences  from,  484. 
See  History. 

Noble's  Lives  of  English  Regicides,  445 ; 
extracts  from,  446  ;  matter  excellent, 
composition  reprehensible,  448. 

Norfolk,  Duke  of,  evidence  at  Maid- 
stone,  289  :  assertions  respecting  the 
British  constitution  refuted,  470 ; 
doctrine  of  the  sovereignty  of  the 
people  erroneous,  473. 

Murphy,  venerable  literary  character 
of,  191.  See  Arininius. 

P. 

Paine,  Thomas,  letter  of,  to  the  people 
of  France,  21 ;  examined,  22  ;  praises 
the  French  Revolution,  23 ;  supposes 
extraordinary  virtues  in  the  number 
five,  24 ;  doctrines  of,  propagated  by 
the  Corresponding  Society,  111 ; 
praises  the  French  Directory,  141 ; 
reasons  like  the  Analytical  Re- 
viewers, ib.;  a  flatterer  of  tyrants, 
142 ;  his  Rights  of  Man  lead  to  ruin, 
143  ;  a  member  of  tyrannical  clubs, 
145. 

Paris,  state  of,  272 ;  a  scene  of  theft 
and  robbery,  273  ;  people  of,  disaffec- 
ted to  the  government,  275  ;  cor- 
rupted morals  of,  277 ;  former 
happiness  of,  ib. 

Parliament,  Irish,  report  of  Committee 
of,  contains  an  historical  sketch  of 
Irish  rebellion,  292  ;  of  means  of 
diffusion,  ib.  ;  treasonable  news- 
papers, ib.;  general  result  of,  295. 

Parry  threatens  to  prosecute  The  Anti- 
Jacobin  for  attacking  the  Courier,  376 ; 
challenged  to  do  so,  ib. 

Pennsylvania,  court  of,  11 ;  famous  for 
bastards  and  cuckoldom,  15 ;  civic 
feast  in  Philadelphia,  ib. 

Perry,  a  brisk,  bouncing  liquor,  wants 
strength,  248. 

Phillips,  R.,  editor  of  the  Monthly 
Magazine,  200 ;  history  of,  ib. ;  con- 
duct at  Leicester,  ib.  ;  confined  two 
years  for  sedition,  ib. ;  establishes  the 
Monthly  Magazine,  ib.;  other  labours 
of,  in  the  cause,  201 ;  praised  by  the 
Analytical,  ib. ;  the  friend  of  Hoi- 
croft,  Wakefleld,  and  Godwin,  ib.  ; 
purveyor-general  to  Jacobins,  325 ; 
undertakes  to  TEACH  our  King,  who, 
of  his  subjects,  deserve  reward,  635  ; 


INDEX   TO    THE   ANTI-JACOBIN  REVIEW. 


339 


supposed  to  be  sprung  from  Paul 
Phillips,  clerk  of  the  parish,  and 
president  of  an  ale-house  club  for 
inanaifinn  the.  nation  in  the  reign  of 
Queen  Anne,  16. 

Pitt,  the  Right  Hon.  William,  con- 
trasted with  Mr.  Fox,  575 ;  educa- 
tion and  juvenile  studies.  576 ; 
honourable  election  of,  il>. ;  addicted 
neither  to  gaming  nor  debauchery, 
577  ;  political  principles  and  conduct 
of,  ib.  ;  risks  popularity  for  the 
good  of  his  country,  578 ;  measures 
and  success  of,  579 ;  farther  con- 
trasted with  Mr.  Fox,  702. 

Poetry,  explanation  of  the  print,  115  ; 
Progress  of  Liberty,  116 ;  Co_ngratu- 
latory  Ode,  117  ;  United  Irishmen, 
118 ;  Wanderings  of  lapis,  228  ; 
Address  to  the  Premier  Peer  in 
imitation  of  Horace,  233 ;  Jacobin 
Council,  235  ;  sent  with  a  Shilling, 
236 ;  Ages  of  Reason,  ib.;  Epistle 
from  Miss  Seward  to  Mr.  Lister,  237  ; 
Anarchists,  an  Ode,  365 ;  Honey 
Moon  of  Fox  and  Tooke  in  Imita- 
tion of  Horace  and  Lydia,  507  ;  Lines 
to  Lady  Nelson,  ib. ;  song  on  Admiral 
Nelson's  Victory,  599. 

Polybius,  admirable,  general  principles 
of  government,  thinks  a  mixed  con- 
stitution the  best,  521.  See  Gillies. 

Porcupine,  Peter,  efforts  of,  in 
America,  7  ;  Republican  Judge,  ib. ; 
attempts  of  Spanish  Ambassador 
against,  9 ;  examines  the  justice  of 
the  REPUBLICAN  JUDGE,  11 ;  charac- 
terizes republican  justice,  12  ;  Jaco- 
binism, ii>.;  Bone  to  Gnaw  for  the 
Democrats,  342 ;  abused  by  the 
Analytical  Review,  ib. ;  will  of,  725  ; 
Diplomatic  Blunderbuss  of,  ib.;  excel- 
lent tendency  and  able  execution, 
836  ;  Political  Censor  of,  for  January, 
1797,  836  ;  ditto,  for  March,  1797,  839  ; 
eloquence  and  ability  of  both,  ib. 

Porcupiniana,  479  ;  strictures  on  the 
Whig^  Club,  i&.;  on  Volney  the 
Atheist,  592  ;  on  Priestley,  ib. 

Portland,  Duke  of,  junction  with  Mr. 
Pitt  justified,  206  ;  obligations  of  the 
country  to  him  and  friends,  474. 

Price.     See  Jacobinism  and  Dissenters. 

Priestley,  Dr.,  reduced  state  of,  16 ; 
declares  Republican  governments  to 
be  most  arbitrary,  ib.;  Original 
Letters  to,  reviewed,  146 ;  authority 
of,  referred  to,  to  sanction  the  abuse 
of  the  Church,  476 ;  misrepresenta- 
tions of,  555 ;  the  firebrand  philo- 
sopher, 592 ;  declared  intention  to 
blow  up  the  Church,  626. 


Prints,  Jacobin,  concur  in  asserting 
that  the  facts,  reported  by  the 
Secret  Committee,  were  before 
known  to  them,  247 ;  accuse  the  Navy 
Board  of  inactivity.  377 ;  misrepre- 
sentations and  falsehoods  of,  noted, 
379 ;  ditto,  496. 

Prospectus  of  the  Anti-Jacobin  Jievieic, 
I ;  of  the  old  BnglMiumn,  «ul.  -  -  • 

Prostitution.    See  Mary  Wollstonecraft. 

Q. 

Quakers,  contributed  nothing  volun- 
tarily to  the  State,  136  ;  pretence  of 
conscience  unfounded,  137 ;  loyalty 
of,  exposed,  356  ;  origin  and  principles 
of  the  sect,  357  ;  farther  exposed, 
709  ;  ten  commandments  of,  711. 

B. 

Reform,  a  veil  for  the  most  dangerous 
conspiracies,  139. 

Reformers,  in  unison  of  counsels  with 
France,  66  ;  coincidence  traced,  ib. 

Regicides,  English,  Lives  of  (see 
Noble) ;  French  have  sworn  hatred 
to  the  Monarchy,  even  of  the 
Supreme  Being,  446. 

Reviews,  democratical,  the  mere  instru- 
ments of  faction,  2. 

Revolution.  French,  three  classes  of 
friends  of,  741 ;  proposes  to  establish 
universal  Pyrrhonism,  743  ;  germs, 
principles,  and  causes  of,  746 ;  ex- 
pressions built  upon,  747. 

Rivers's  History  and  Conduct  of  the  Dis- 
senters, reviewed,  626 ;  character  of 
John  Knox,  627  ;  dissenters  inimical 
to  our  establishment,  ib.;  character 
of  Price,  629. 

Robespierre  praised  by  republicans  and 
levellers,  22. 

Robinson's  (Mrs.)  Walsingham,  re- 
viewed, 100  ;  literary  character  of, 
161;  political  principles,  ib.;  misre- 
presents the  manners  of  the  great, 
and  state  of  the  poor,  162 ;  ad- 
monished to  read  Blair's  Lectures, 
163  ;  not  to  go  beyond  her  depth,  164. 

Robinson's,  Anthony,  Vine  of  the  English 
Wars,  613 ;  life  and  character  of  the 
author,  014  ;  apprenticed  to  a  dissent- 
ing linen-draper,  ib.;  a  sectarian 
preacher,  015  ;  an  orator  in  debating 
societies,  ib. ;  his  work  a  mere  vehicle 
of  Jacobinism,  017. 

Rousseau,  character  of,  360  :  doctrine 
of,  743 ;  political,  749. 


340 


POETKY   OF    THE    ANTI-JACOBIN. 


8. 

Saint  Lambert,  principles  of  morality, 
796  ;  new  catechism,  797. 

Sallust,  remarks  of,  on  false  modera- 
tion towards  conspirators,  442. 

Scriptures  defended  against  Socinians 
and  Deists,  439 :  attacks  on,  give 
them  new  force,  ib.;  revilers  of  (see 
Geddes). 

Secession.    See  Fox. 

Seditious  meetings,  Bill  for  restrain- 
ing, praised,  66. 

Shears,  Report  of  Trial  of,  reviewed,  540. 

Sheridan's  testimony  at  Maidstone,  286. 

Smith's  (Charlotte)  Young  Philosopher 
reviewed,  187  ;  she  has  talents  for 
novel-writing,  ib.;  defects,  egotism, 
and  repetition  of  the  same  story,  ib.; 
politics  beyond  her  reach,  188 ; 
abuse  of  kings,  ib.;  blunder  about 
Roman  demagogues,  ib.;  frivolous 
and  false  remarks,  189;  praised  by 
the  Analytical,  190. 

Social    order    defended    against    the 

Erinciples  of  the  French  revolution, 
y  Abb<5  de  Voisin,  772 ;  ability  of 
the  work,  773  ;  principles  of  Govern- 
ment, 775  ;  confutation  of  the  Rights 
of  Man  doctrines,  776 ;  confutation  of 
the  AbU  Sieyes,  779. 

Society,  Corresponding,  object  of,  111 
(see  Thomas  Paine) ;  account  of.  See 
Lawrence  Lashknave. 

Societies,  Debating.  See  Police  Magis- 
trates. 

Spirit  of  the  public  journals,  324;  con- 
tains the  quintessence  of  Jacobinism, 
ib.;  extracts  from  the  most  Jacobini- 
cal publications,  325  ;  address  of,  to 
the  soldiers,  328.  See  Monthly,  Criti- 
cal, and  Analytical  Reviews  ;  Courier. 
Post,  Chronicle,  Monthly  Magazine,  and 
R.  Phillips. 

Stiguer,  the  Swiss  patriot,  high 
character  of,  503. 

Stonehouse's  Letters  to  Priestley,  146  ; 
predict  the  downfal  of  every  govern- 
ment, 148 ;  exhibit  every  feature  of 
the  Jacobin  character,  ib.;  praise  the 
new  Annual  Register,  150. 

Switzerland  and  Swiss.  See  Mallet  du 
Pan  and  History. 


T. 

Talleyrand,  Perigord,  a  friend  of  Op- 
position Members,  151. 

Taxation,  plan  of,  on  income  justified, 
487. 


Thanet,  Earl  of,  evidence  of,  at  Maid- 
stone,  290. 

Theatre,  114-248-479.  See  Cambro-Biitons, 
Lovers'  yows,  &c. 

Thomas's  Consequences  of  an  English  In- 
vasion, reviewed,  459  ;  sermon  on  pub- 
lic worship,  672. 

Toasts,  seditious,  69 ;  standing  of  the 
Corresponding  Society  and  Whig 
Club,  80.  See  Fox  and  the  Duke  of 
Norfolk. 

Tooke,  John  Home—  Diversions  ofPurley 
considered,  385 ;  political  anecdotes 
of,  ib.;  literary  merit  ascertained,  386 
(see  Henshall) ;  Diversions  of  Purley, 
reviewed,  655 ;  Portraits  by  (see  Pitt 
and  Fox). 

Turenne,  different  from  Hoche,  32. 


u. 

Underpaid,  Fall  of,  reviewed,  663; 
tyranny  of  the  Directory,  664  ;  perfidy 
of,  665. 

V. 

Vaurien,reyiew  of,  reviewed,  685 ;  merit 
as  a  satirical  performance,  ib.;  ex- 
hibits the  consequences  of  Godwin's 
Political  Justice,  686;  describes  the 
various  modes  of  seizing  on  property, 
687. 

Voltaire,  observations  of,  concerning 
government,  9  ;  character,  360  ;  philo- 
sophy, religion,  and  morality  of,  751 ; 
life  of,  by  Verney,  816. 

Vultures,  modern,  812. 

w. 

Wakefield,  admonition  to,  36 ;  Reply  to 
the  Bishop  of  Landaff,  72 ;  Letter  to 
the  Attorney  General,  151 ;  scurrilous 
abuse  of  Mr.  Pitt,  152 ;  asserts  all 
human  governments  to  be  incorrig- 
ibly profligate,  154  ;  pretends  to  con- 
trol legislature,  magistracy,  and 
administration,  155 ;  character  and 
motives  of,  examined,  156  ;  letter  of, 
to  Mr.  Wilberforce,  551. 

Wans_ey,  Letter  of,  to  the  Bishop  of 
Salisbury,  answered,  542  ;  deplorable 
malady  of,  544. 

War,  causes  of,  the  French  doctrines 
and  revolution,  27. 

Whig  Club  tends  to  the  subversion  of 
the  Constitution,  60  (see  Fox  and  the 
Duke  of  Norfolk);  proceedings  of, 
versified,  303;  Erskine's  speech  at, 


INDEX   TO   THE    ANTI-JACOBIN  REVIEW. 


341 


609.  See  Fox,  Jacobinism,  and  Cor- 
responding  Society. 

Whitbread,  evidence  of,  at  Maidstone, 
290. 

Williams,  Helen  Maria,  Jacobinical 
principles  of,  146 ;  patronizes  the 
New  Annual  Register,  158. 

Wollstonecraft,  Godwin,  Mary.  Me- 
moirs of,  94  ;  keeps  her  father  in  awe, 
Hi.\  lively  fancy  without  knowledge 
and  haliits  of  reasoning,  id.;  to  i/uati- 
,ii'il  becomes  one  of  the  Analytical 
Reviewers,  ib.;  uiulertakes  to  answer 
Burke,  95 ;  answer  such  as  might 
have  been  expected,  16.;  her  constitu- 
tion testified  by  her  husband  to  have 
bMBOMorvtifc  iii.;  Rights  of  Woman 
characterised,  Hi.;  her  passions  in- 
tlamed  by  celibacy,  !>6 ;  falls  in  love 
with  a  married  man,  Hi. ;  at  the  break- 
ing out  of  the  war  betakes  herself  to 
our  enemies,  ib.;  intimate  with  the 
French  leaders  under  Robespierre, 
97 ;  with  Thomas  Paine,  ib. ;  taken 
by  1 1 n lay  into  keeping,  ib.;  her  hus- 


band declares  that  her  soul  had 
panted  for  that  connection,  <'•.;  her 
doctrines,  illustrated  by  her  example, 
•nut  if  ir,  ib.;  a»  old  at  prottitutvm,  ib.; 
proposes  to  elude  her  creditors,  Hi.; 
deserted  by  her  keeper,  ib.;  derives 
particular  gratification  from  Hamil- 
ton Rowan,  ib.;  pursues  her  keeper 
to  England,  ib.;  her  great  aversion  to 
this  country,  ib. ;  being  without  a 
lover  attempts  to  drown  herself,  98  ; 
appointed  kept  mistress  to  the  philo- 
sopher Godwin,  ib.;  married  to  the 
philosopher,  ib.;  does  not  believe  in 
future  punishments,  99 ;  from  t'.io 
time  she  became  enlightened  discon- 
tinued public  worship,  /'•.:  her  life 
illustrates  Jacobin  morality  and 
religion,  <''•.;  high  praises  of  her  life, 
doctrines,  and  conduct  by  the  Analy- 
tical Reviewers,  101 ;  prophetic  apos- 
trophe to  her  by  them,  402.  Stc 
Maria,  Godwin,  Prostitution,  and 
Analytical  Review. 


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